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Christian Science 

True or False ±^" 

Which? 



BY 

John Elward Brown 

n 

PRESIDENT 

International Federation of Christian Workers 

AUTHOR OF 

^THINKING WHITE" ^THE HOLY SPIRIT'^ 
"IN THE CULT KINGDOM" 



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Introductory 



TALK NUMBER ONE 

^^He that is first in his own cause seemeth just, 
but his neighbor cometh and searcheth him/' Pro- 
verbs 18:17. 

In my talks, recently published, on the ''Isms," 
I discussed many facts having to do with the origi- 
nation and manipulation of Christian Science, so- 
called, but very little space was given to the teach- 
ings of the cult. 

From platform and pulpit I have been delivering 
a series of sermons having to do with the questions: 
^'Is it Christian r' ''Is it Scientific T' and "Does it 
Heal?" And to some of those who have heard these 
messages there has come the conviction that these 
messages should be given to the printed page for a 
wider hearing and a closer study. 

In the first talk of the printed series we propose 
to do nothing more than outline something of what 
we hope to accomplish in this coming series, and we 
want to add to this foreward a few words of appre- 
ciation and commendation for the acceptable traits 
and characteristics of the Scientist. 

While we have no commendatory word for Chris- 
tian Science, as a religion, in foreword, or afterword, 
we do wish to give expression to our feelings of ad- 
miration for the efforts the Scientist makes toward 
certain worthy goals. 

In this coming series we shall undertake to 
prove, beyond the question of a peradventure, that 
Christian Science has not one valid reason or ex- 



4 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

cuse for appropriating the word '^Christian'' with 
which to bolster up its system. 

We shall also undertake to prove, beyond the 
question of a peradventure, that Christian Science 
has not one valid reason or excuse for appropriating 
the word '^Science" with which to bolster up its 
system. 

We shall likewise undertake to prove, beyond the 
question of a peradventure, that Christian Science 
heals only as all mind cures heal — that in certain 
cases it works, as other mind cures work, and in 
other cases it does not work, as other mind cures do 
not work. 

^^ Christian r' It is not! 

^^ Scientific?" It is not! 

^ ^ Heals r' It does, but only as other religions, 
known to be fakes, have healed. 

It is just probable that sixty per cent of the 
world's ills are imaginary ills. 

Most people who suffer, suffer only in mind. 

They think disease, until they become chronic in- 
valids — their mental machinery gets to the place 
where the belts slips, and the cogs miss, which re- 
sults in a condition of mind known to the world of 
science as ^ ^ roof- trouble. " 

The symptoms of this disease are about as fol- 
lows : 

People eat every day like an African famine, and 
yet, to hear them tell it, they never have any ap- 
petite ! 

People go to bed, succumb, and sleep in loud and 
emphatic tone of voice, and yet to hear them tell it 
they have a chronic case of insomnia! 

These people, when invited to a wedding, funeral, 
political pow-wow, church service, reception or re- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 5 

cital, will devote this special hour to a recital of 
their more '^recent" aches and pains. 

If they can find others of like faith and mind, 
and they can find them, the hour is spent most de- 
lightfully, thank you, as they recite to each other all 
the horrifying and terrifying sensations of their 
newest ^ ^ operation. " 

When these women assunder apart, whatever the 
nature of the festivity which brought them together, 
they — all to themselves — have had an ^^ Organ" re- 
cital and a ^'clinic seance." 

As paradoxical as it may appear, on first thought, 
these are the men and women who are happiest when 
they have most to be sorry about. 

These men and women have heart disease, liver 
complaint, indigestion, cancer of the stomach, rheu- 
matism, neuralgia, low current to their 'lights," 
and two more tumors, all in the mind. \ 

If it were not for the blasphemous and danger- \ 
ous doctrines connected with this religious hodge- 
podge, called Christian Science, a dose of mind cure 
would work wonders in the lives of these old chronics 
who make day and night hideous with their lugu- 
brious wailings. 

But the question arises, if Christian Science is 
not Christian, and is not Scientific, and does not 
heal, except as other religious cults and fakes have 
healed, then what is there that can be said in com- 
mendation of those who back into this well known 
cult movement? 

It would be the most serious sort of a reflection 
of the mental integrity of thousands of men and wo- 
men, who have cast in their lot with the Christian 
Scientist, to charge, or even intimate, that there is 
nothing about the plans, purposes, ideas, or ideals 



6 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

of the Scientist deserving our commendation, or 
worthy of our emulation. 

There are a few things about the Scientist that 
the church could well afford to copy, and to a brief 
discussion of some of these commendable qualities 
we shall devote the rest of this first message. 



THE BEAUTY OF PRAISE. 

'^I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise 
shall continually be in my mouth.'' Psalm 34:1. 

Many people offer as a reason for visiting the 
Christian Science Temple, that they love to go where 
people are giving praise. 

A word of praise, fitly spoken, doeth good like a 
medicine. 

There is something not alone beautiful and at- 
tractive, but fascinating, about a service of genuine 
praise. 

To the Christian Science Temple, every Scientist 
brings a Psalm of triumph and a paean of praise. 

Mind you, this is the undeviating rule — the writ- 
ten law. 

The moment you give utterance to one convic- 
tion that there exists a world of material reality, 
where there are bones, and moans, and groans, that 
moment you are read out of the Christian Science 
Temple, or taken aside to be taught the rules of the 
game more thoroughly. 

So far as losses, and crosses, and trials, and .diffi- 
culties, and problems, and woes, and heart aches, in 
the Christian Science scheme of worship, they just 
*' ain't so," and to admit that they are so, and to 
sympathize with sin and suffering, according to the 
Christian Science edict, is to dethrone God as the 
God of the Universe. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 7 

Now, artificial flowers look good — at a distance 
—and even a gold brick has got the shine, but that 
is no evidence that the artificial flowers are real 
flowers, or that the gold brick is sure enough gold. 

^^AU is not gold that glitters," is an old saying 
and fearfully true. 

Up to a point, the Christian Scientist is to be 
commended for carrying the best he has to the house 
where he worships; beyond that point, however, 
commendation must be turned into condemnation. 

Every man and woman, however situated, has so 
much to be thankful for, that whenever they turn 
toward the house of worship, they should present 
the best they have to Grod, and the crime they com- 
mit is well nigh unpardonable when they turn to- 
ward God's house with their long-faced, sour, dill 
pickle, green persimmon, graveyard, pessimistic 
gloom, and gone-to-the-devil-and-dog-fennel mean- 
ings and sad lamentations. 

And the Protestant church is cursed with these 
Gloomy-Gus type of saint, near-saint, far-saint, or 
/^ain't." 

However, there are the two extremes, and if the 
Protestant church has its pessimistic glooms who 
have looked at mud, and thought mud, and walked 
in mud, and dreamed mud, until everything is black, 
ever has been black, and always will be black, the 
Christian Science Temple has the other extreme of 
the Happy Hooligan with a tin-can-on-the-head-re- 
ligion, who has thought sunshine, and looked at the 
sunshine, and studied sunshine, and dreamed sun- 
shine, until the poor fool is drunk on sunshine. 

If the world has its pessimistic fool, it likewise 
has its optimistic ass, and between the two extremes 
we should choose— NEITHER ! 

If the Protestant church needs to leave its long 



8 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

face and sad lamentations at home when turning to • 
ward its place of worship, the Christian Scientist 
needs to leave some of his hypocritical and lying sop 
out of his so-called praise service. 

One of my neighbors, a most worthy and reliable 
woman, told me of a Christian Science service she 
had attended in a Colorado city, in which a woman 
testified that she had cut her thumb from her hand, 
and that she picked the dismembered member from 
the ground, stuck it back in its proper attitude and 
altitude, and quoted the Christian Science jargon, or 
meaningless formula, ^ ^ God is good and good is God 
and what is good is God and Mary-Baker-Glover- 
Patterson-Eddy-I-tes, married three times, divorced 
twice and gone to heaven-I-tes, ' ' or something like 
that, and presto! the thumb was instantly re-at- 
tached, and made perfectly whole. 

This good woman says she looked around to see 
how the crowd was taking the testimony, and those 
Scientists, so-called, sat there like a lot of old owls 
and never batted an incredulous eye. 

^^I couldn't help it," said this refined and modest 
little woman, ^^I turned to the woman next to me and 
said, /^ That woman is one of the biggest liars in 
Colorado. ' ' 

A prominent man was telling me that he sat in a 
Christian Science service and heard a woman relate 
how her husband had carried about, on the top side 
of his head, a barren waste (that might possibly 
have been the result of her ladylike mania for en- 
larged fields of operation for her ^ ^ drawn-work " ) 
and how all attempts to grow alfalfa or hair thereon 
had resulted in the saddest and completest of fail- 
ures, and when all hope seemed gone and they were 
entering a hard winter without a hair to his head, 
she happened onto Christian Science, and that after 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 9 

so many treatments (she herself working the mystic 
wand) Lo, the hardened soil gave evidence of a 
coming harvest, and now, heaven and Christian 
Science be praised, her husband's roof was covered 
with silken strands. 

A testimony like this would lead one to say, ' ' how 
unfortunate that while Christian Science was work- 
ing such wonders for the top side of her husband's 
head, it could not have also worked some wonders 
in placing a few stray pieces of furniture in the 
empty garret under her own leaky roof." 

To go to church with a whine, and a moan, and a 
groan, is to become just as attractive and popular as 
the tax collector, while to go to church denying the 
reality of human sorrow and sufferings, and at the 
same time telling how Christian Science cured us of 
two more tumors, each as big as a candy bucket, and 
this after leading surgeons had pronounced us in- 
curable, the undertaker had measured us, and the 
grave digger was whetting his spade, is to out- Anan- 
ias old Ananias and eventually receive the same con- 
demnation. 



THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SERVICE. 

^^I labored more abundantly than they all; yet 
not I, but the grace of God that was with me.'' 1 
Cor. 15:10. 

We have all heard the story of the old lady that 
could not be led to speak evil of anyone. 

When, as a test case, they sought to lead her to 
speak evil of the devil, she reminded her questioners 
that they could well follow the devil's example when 
it came to perseverance. 

Now, we do not wish to imply that the Christian 



10 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

# 

Scientist is to be likened to the Prince of Darkness, 
in any regard, even though unconsciously he be do- 
ing directly, or indirectly, the devil's work, yet we 
do wish to suggest to the average lazy lout of Zion 
that he could very properly seek to follow the ex- 
ainple of the Scientist, when it comes to activity and 
perseverance. 

Going west on one of my California trips, a little 
woman sat beside me in the observation car, and 
after a few passing remarks, she arose with, ^^If you 
will be so kind, I have some literature I would like to 
have you look over." 

After a few moments she returned from her berth 
with an arm load of Christian Science reading mat- 
ter, evidently believing that I looked like a fit sub- 
ject for a little missionary work. 

No man ever found a real Christian Scientist that 
that Christian Scientist was not working and talk- 
ing his religion. 

If the churches of Christendom, that profess to 
stand loyal to the old book, and seek to follow the 
old paths, were one-half as active and one-half as 
enthusiastic in carrying the old truths to a dying 
world, as these misguided folk are active and en- 
thusiastic in carrying out their destructive lies, the 
world would be set afire for Christ, and before many 
months Jesus Christ would come. 

We would not have the Protestant church mem- 
ber active in proselyting other church members, as 
the Scientist does, nor would we have him try to 
make merchandise out of the sick and the suffering 
as the Scientist often does, nor would we have him 
exaggerate and misrepresent the facts concerning 
the results of his beliefs, as we have known Chris- 
tian Scientists to do, but we would have him be just 
as completely on the job for Christ and the blood- 



CITEISTIAN SCIENCE 11 

bought church, as the Scientist is on the job for an 
etherial Christ and a bloodless church. 

While the average church member, who is con- 
versant with the activities and tactics of the Scien- 
tist, is lamenting the fact that the Scientist is seed- 
ing down the land with his lying literature, and 
proselyting the church, and making merchandise out 
of the sick, this average church member is doing' 
nothing but lament. 

If I were the devil, I would walk like the devil, 
and talk like the devil, and smell like the devil, and 
dress like the devil, and work like the devil. 

If I were a Christian Scientist, I would walk like 
a Scientist, and talk like a Scientist, and smell like a 
Scientist, and dress like a Scientist, and work like 
the Scientist, which means, in several ways, to work 
like the devil. 

Now then, if we are members of the blood-wash- 
ed and blood-bought Church of Christ, we should 
w^alk, and talk, and dress, and smell, and work like 
the blood-washed and the blood-bought! 

I heartily concur in the sentiments of the man 
who said that he had no particular objections to the 
activities of the bedbug, but he did have serious ob- 
jections to his methods of making a living. 

I like to see a man desperately in earnest, and en- 
thusiastically on the job, whether in business, poli- 
tics, recreation, or religion; and so I have no serious 
objections to the activities of the Scientist, except as 
he tries to suck the blood out of the Bible and away 
from the Cross, to make the religion of Christ a 
meaningless theory, instead of a tremendous fact! 

To be true, much of this activity and enthusiasm 
comes from the intoxication of a new theory, and 
characterizes the convert to any new cause, good or 
bad, and much of it is effervescent and will pass 



12 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

away, and yet while it lasts it results in many being 
pulled from the church, from the Bible and from 
God. 

The man who is truly converted and holding to 
the tried and the true of the whole Bible, should 
have the intoxication of perpetual peace, and joy, 
and life, and the enthusiasm that keeps one working 
Fourth of July and Christmas, society, or circus, 
Sunday and all days. 

Personally, we admire, up to a point, the cheer- 
ful optimism of the Scientist. 

Personally, also, we admire the incessant and 
seeming indefatigable labors of the Christian Scien- 
tist. 

Failure is eliminated, with the toothache, from 
the vocabulary of the Scientist, and if at first you do 
not succeed, the invariable rule is to give them an- 
other dose of ''Ma" Eddy. 

Through every open door they pass, and Avhere- 
ever permitted, by every sick bed they sit, and into 
every open ear they pour their specious appeals. 

Church neuralgia and church rheumatism, so 
prevalent amongst the Protestant church members, 
and so disastrous to the church, is unknown to the 
Scientist, and no excusable excuse can be invented 
for absenting oneself from the temple of worship. 

The Christian Scientist is always there — he is 
everywhere. 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 13 

THE POWER OF LOYALTY. 

'^From whom the whole body fitly joined togeth- 
er and compacted by that which every joint sup- 
plieth, according to the effectual workings in the 
measure of every part, maketh increase of the body 
unto the edifying of itself in love." Eph. 4:16. 

It is a rule of Christian Science that a convert 
withdraw from all other church connections and be- 
come wholly and soully a Scientist. 

This is necessary that the Scientist may not have 
the continuity of his thinking jarred. 

Unless he crawls into the Christian Science hole 
and pulls the hole down upon him, someone is liable 
to say something that reflects on the moral integrity 
of ^^Ma" Eddy, or the reliability of Christian 

Science as a system, and these reflections are not 
beneficial to the Christian Scientist's constitution. 

We admire the optimism of the Scientist. 

We admire the activity of the Scientist. 

We admire the loyalty of the Scientist. 

We make these statements with reservations, 
however, some of these reservations having been dis- 
cussed above. 

That the Scientist is loyal to his breed, goes with- 
out question to those who have been made acquaint- 
ed with the clannishness of the Scientist. 

The old-fashioned, close-communion, dyed-in-the- 
wool Hard Shell Baptist was as elastic as the imagi- 
nation of childhood compared to the inner circle of 
the Scientist cult. 

We believe in loyalty, — loyalty to the church to 
which we belong. 

Some people are so liberal in their religious 



14 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

views that they are outright disloyal to the denomi- 
nation to which thej^ have attached themselves. 

Sectarianism is to be deplored and denounced, 
for it is the left over relie of the days of the jungle 
in things religious, but loyalty to the church to 
which one belongs is not alone necessary, but ac- 
ceptable everywhere, and beautiful anywhere. 

The iJones, or Smith, or Brown, who refuses to 
tie down and be loyal to his own family on the 
ground that he loves all the Joneses, or the Smiths, 
or the Browns, alike, and on that ground is going to 
live around and feed around amongst them all, 
would get -poisoned, or shot, and correctly so. 
/ The Methodist, or the Baptist, or the Presbyter- 
ian, who loves all churches alike, and therefore is 
not going to tie down anywhere, but just feed 
around from church to church, isn't worth the cost 
of the lime to eat his carcass. 

If a man is going to be a Christian Scientist, let 
him be a good one — or, rather, a loyal one. 

If a man is going to be a Baptist, let him be a 
good Baptist. 

If a man is going to be a Presbyterian, let him be 
a good Presbyterian. 

If a man is going to be a Methodist, let him be a 
good Methodist. 

About the scrawniest, mangiest, triflingest, no- 
accountist, good-f or-nothingist church wart this side 
the religious scrap-heap is the disloyal, no-account 
Methodist. 

Possibly the Methodist would seek to explain this 
fact on the ground that that which rises highest can 
always fall lowest! 

The Scientist is cheerful always — the first law 
and the last law of the Scientist system is SMILE! 
SMILE! 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 15 

The Scientist is active always — the first law and 
the last law of the Scientist system is work! WOEK! 

The Scientist is loyal always — the first law and 
the last law of the Scientist system is loyalty I LOY- 
ALTY! 

On these three points the Protestant world could 
well afford to follow the example of the Scientist. 

In this first talk we have given time to the ques- 
tions on which we can agree with the Scientist. 

In the talks to come we will take up the questions 
on which we don't agree. 



The Woman 



TALK NUM3ER TWO 

^^If thou put tlie brethren in remembrance of 
these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus 
Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and sound 
doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse 
profane and old wives' fables/' 1st Timothy 4:6-7. 

Mary A Morse Baker was born in Bow, New 
Hampshire, July 16th, 1821. 

In Tilton, of the same state, most of her earlier 
years were spent, and here she received what little 
schooling she had. It was here, also, during these 
earlier years, that she became the victim of abnor- 
mal nervous attacks that seemed to border on epil- 
epsy or lunacy. 

According to the testimony of those who knew, 
Mary Baker was allowed to have matters pretty 
much as she chose them, for, to oppose her whims, 
or to make any attempt to correct her for her delin- 
quencies, meant that into one of these fits she would 
tumble, to lie like one dead. 

When she was older grown she became a pliable 
and willing subject for mesmeric demonstrations, 
and from this she went into a study of spiritualism, 
and here she became a spiritualistic medium, capa- 
ble of performing most of the so-called miracles that 
the average denizen of spiritual darkness performs. 

Her several voyages on the sea of matrimony 
seemed to have resulted disastrously, both to her 
and her several husbands. The name, Mrs. Mary Ba- 
ker Glover Eddy, under which she lived and served, 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 17 

was a combination of a few of the many names to 
which she had some legal right, as Glover was the 
name of her first husband and Eddy the name of the 
last. 

In ^^Retrospection and Introspection," Mrs. Ed- 
dy finally gave to her church her autobiography, and 
this story carries with it enough of the mysterious 
and the miraculous to convince the most incredulous 
that this was no ordinary teacher with which the 
world had to do. 

She tells of her birth and gives the picture of the 
house in which she was born. 

She tells of her childhood days, her early inclina- 
tion to things religious, with her joining the church 
at the age of '^TWELVE,'' and how, there in the 
holy place, she confused and confounded the learned 
minister of the Gospel by asking him questions con- 
cerning doctrine that she, a child, could not believe. 

She tells of her cravings for knowledge, and how 
she consumed Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin with an 
avidity that was astounding, and how she spoke 
these languages fluently. 

She tells of her FATAL ILLNESS, and how, 
when she had been given up to die, on THE THIRD 
DAY, she was raised from the dead to health, 
through receiving this heavenly revelation, called 
Christian Science. 

The book certainly is a very wonderful book, and 
the Mrs. Eddy that the book tells about is a wonder 
ful Mrs. Eddy. 

Just along here, however, the McClure's maga- 
zine sent back special writers with instructions to 
get the facts concerning Mrs. Eddy, in particular, 
and Christian Science, in general, whatever the cost 
and wherever the chips might fly. 

By overwhelming evidence, even to the most 



18 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

sceptical, — evidence unquestioned and unimpeach- 
able, McClure's proved that practically every state- 
ment Mrs. Eddy had made concerning herself was 
glaringly, and knowingly, and maliciously false. 

When McClure's got through with ^^Retrospec- 
tion and Introspection," it looked just about like An- 
anias^ report looked after it had been investigated 
under God's searching eye, and the only possible ex- 
planation of Mrs. Eddy's deliverance from the same 
fate that Ananias suffered, was the fact that God 
evidently was not yet ready to strike. 

The deliberate fabrications that Mrs. Eddy set 
her pen to were so far beyond anything that old An- 
anias ever attempted, that Ananias looked like a 
novice at the business, in comparison. 

And why did not these articles sound out the 
death knell of the cult? 

Two reasons! 

First, the world at large did not read these 
articles, and second. Christian Scientists were for-- 
bidden to read them. 

Christian Scientists are taught that it is outright 
disloyalty, and next to treachery, for a Scientist to 
read anything that questions the authenticity of 
Science and Health, or the reliability of its author. 

Furthermore, when you hold this cult up for a 
public analysis, or hold up its founder for a public 
investigation, the Eddyite cries, ^^Persecution, per- 
secution, ' ' until, in their ludicrous attempts to play 
the role of the martyr, the joke is sufficiently great 
to make the martyrs turn over in their graves. 

^^The Christian Scientist never speaks evil of 
anyone," is their common defense, and this common 
saying is usually a common lie. One thing certain, if 
the Scientist never spoke evil of anyone, he would 
not be following the beaten path over which his ^^be- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 19 

loved leader" passed, for some of the most enven- 
omed and scurrilous attacks one religious leader 
-ever directed at another came from the pen of Mrs. 
Mary Baker Glover Eddy. 

In support of this rather sweeping and serious 
statement, I place the following evidence — and this 
is only a small part of what could be placed in exhi- 
bition here. 

Richard Kennedy, at one time her most trusted 
and most popular satellite, who, growing weary of 
her domineering and dishonest tendencies, broke 
from the Eddy orbit, and began moving in a circle 
separate and apart from the self-crowned proph- 
etess, was denounced as a traitor, a mesmerist, a 
user of malicious animal magnetism, and a villian 
of the deepest dye, and his doom was prophesied in 
the following lurid Eddy style: ^'The Nero of to- 
day, regaling himself with the tortures of individu- 
als, is repeating history and will fall upon his own 
sword, and it shall pierce him through. Let him re- 
member this, when in the dark recesses of his heart 
he is robbing, committing adultery, or killing; when 
he is attempting to turn friend from friend, ruth- 
lessly stabbing the quivering heart." 

Poor, inoffensive Kennedy, whose only crime was 
the crime of independence, is denounced as the Nero 
of today, — Nero, than whom there was none more 
bloodthirsty and vicious in all history. 

This effusion is found in ' ' Science and Health, ' ' 
the third edition, and we only quote a small part of 
the envenomed maledictions which she hysterically 
pours out on Kennedy's head. 

Daniel H. Spofford was another of the inner cir- 
cle who finally chose to operate under his own vine 
and fig tree, and, in a sort of a supplement to the 
second edition of ^'Science and Health,'' Mr. Spof- 



20 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

ford becomes the recipient of the following beautiful 
(???) tribute: ^'Behold! thou criminal, mental, mar- 
auder, that would blot out the sunshine of earth, 
that would sever friends, destroy virtue, put out 
truth, and murder in secret the innocent, befouling 
thy track with the trophies of thy guilt,— I say, be- 
hold the cloud no larger than a man's hand, already 
rising in the horizon of Truth, to pour down upon 
thy guilty head the hailstones of doom.'' 

While she does not charge poor Spofford with be- 
ing the Twentieth century Ahab, who slew God's 
%^Prophets, her scriptural reference to the man's 
hand, etc., would lead one to infer that this was the 
modern Ahab. 

But even more shocking than her frenzied, en- 
venomed attacks on Kennedy and Spofford, was her 
attack on Mrs. Josephine C. Woodbury. 

Mrs. Woodbury was guilty of the crime of trying 
to put into actual practice the absurdities of Mrs. 
Eddy's teachings, and for her loyalty and popular- 
ity — popularity amongst some of the faithful, she 
suffered excommunication, and her excommunica- 
tion was followed with a tirade that was as out- 
rageously false and as slanderous as ever ran from 
the end of a pen. 

In her annual message to the Mother church, she 
refers to Mrs. Woodbury as follows: ^^The doom of 
the Babylonish woman referred to in Revelation is 
being fulfilled. This woman, drunken with the blood 
of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of 
Jesus, drunk with the wine of her fornication, would 
enter the church, and, retaining the heart of a harlot 
and the purpose of a destroying angel, poison such 
as drink of the living waters — that which the Re- 
vealer saw in spiritual vision will be accomplished. 
The Babylonish woman is fallen; and who shall 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 21 

mourn over the widowhood of lust, of her that hath 
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of ev- 
ery foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean bird. ' ' 

Here are three incidents, recorded from Chris- 
tian Science literature, where three former follow- 
ers of Mrs. Eddy broke the yoke of their bondage, 
and the first she likens to Nero, the man of blood, and 
the second she likens to Ahab, the slayer of God^s 
prophets, and the third she likens to the Babylonish 
woman, the mother of harlots. 

Nowhere in any literature, religious or secular, 
can one find anything more infamously and slander- 
ously untrue, and these are but extracts from many 
such scurrilous attacks made upon innocent people 
by this ^^ Beloved Leader," the ^^ Honored Mother/' 
the founder of Christian Science. 

In Mrs. Eddy — the plagiarist, the slanderer, the 
money grabber, and the fame seeker — you have the 
real picture of the founder of Christian Science, and 
not in the awe-inspiring, ' ' divine ' ' pictures that the 
average devotee draws of the ^^ Beloved Leader.'' 



THE SYSTEM. 

''According to the grace of God which is given 
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the 
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let 
everj^ man take heed how he buildeth thereon. For 
other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, 
which is Jesus Christ." 1st Cor. 3-10-11. 

The system under which the Christian Scientist 
serves is worthy of more than passing notice. 

Some men and women, after glancing over the 
inconsistencies, and the absurdities, and the incon- 
gruities, of the Christian Science faith and teach- 
ings, enthusiastically predict that the movement will 



22 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

die a ^^bornin' '' and be ^^ buried with the burial of 
an ass," but when they so predict they only an- 
nounce to the world their ignorance concerning the 
<5unningly constructed system that underlies the 
movement. 

Mark Twain, in his study of Christian Science, 
which is to be had in book form, has probably given 
to the world the most complete analysis of the Chris- 
tian Science organization ever given, and he made 
bold to phophesy, that on the ground of its marvel- 
ously constructed machinery, and on that ground 
alone. Christian Science would some day become the 
most powerful religion in the world. 

To begin with. Christian Science is, first, last, 
and all the time, for ' ' The Beloved Leader, ' ' and for 
Christian Science. 

As a cult it builds no schools, and builds no hos- 
pitals, and builds no homes for the aged, and builds 
no orphanages, and builds no home for the fallen, 
and sends no missionaries to the foreign fields, but 
all the gold that pours into the Christian Science 
treasury (and Christian Science is rich beyond the 
dream of avarice), is used to further the Christian 
Science cause. A convert to Christian Science means 
added money to the Christian Science machine, so 
that the effort is to get more converts to get more 
money to get more converts to get more money, and 
on, and on, as long as dupes and money grow. 

Practically, all grist that comes to the Christian 
Science mill is made to pay dividends in gold, and 
this gold is used in every increasing quantities to in- 
crease the capacity of the mill. 

The nation is districted into many districts, and 
in each of these districts there resides a highly paid 
press agent of the machine, and his duty is to reply 
to all attacks, from whatever source, made on Mrs. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 23 

Eddy, the ''beloved founder," or upon Christian 
Science as a cult. 

I have had these press agents after me, from 
coast to coast, and their alleged replies are practi- 
cally the same, in whatever state, or whatever part 
of the state. 

I have never had one of these watch dogs take up 
my trail that he did not have, in his stereotyped de- 
fense of his cult, the old stale tributes to his ''be- 
loved leader," with the usual comic attempt to play 
the role of the silent sufferer for a great truth. 

Mind you, this "press agent" is a mere cog in 
the Christian Science wheel, and his work is mapped 
out for him, in so far as thtf general trend of his 
work is concerned, and he is not to deviate one iota 
from the marked course, on penalty of expulsion 
from the church. 

What is true of these district watch dogs, is true 
of every reader and every lecturer in the whole 
Christian Science domain. 

Of course, these Christian Science nonentities 
will vociferously deny such charges, and, in reply, 
one may repeat the old saying, "none are so blind 
as those who will not see," and we may add, none 
are such pitiable slaves as those who wear the ball 
and chain, and try to drown the sound of the clank- 
ing chains by shouting about their liberty. 

There never was a time, during the life of the 
"beloved leader," that she could not with a word 
remove the official head of any official in the church 
anywhere, and that without the victim of her des- 
potism having an impartial trial or even a hearings 
atd when her knife fell, there was no possible hope 
that the unfortunate object of her jealousy, or her 
tyranny, would ever again be able to lift his head in 
the Science temple. 



24 . CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

Early in the building of the Science church, there 
Avas some evidence of a growing unrest amongst the 
Eddy followers over the fact that however loyal and 
successful the workers under the Eddy flag, these 
workers had no voice whatever in the direction of 
the affairs of the church. 

According to the rules and laws then in opera- 
tion, they had some legal right to a voice in the 
management of the church, but, in actual practice, 
they were only so many ciphers. Finally, there was 
great jubilation in the Eddy camp over the fact that 
the whole machinerj^ of the Christian Science church 
was thrown on the scrap heap. 

At last the Scientist was to be free from the 
dwarfing despotism under which he had served, 
through the months or years. 

Through the Christian Science Journal, Mrs. Ed- 
dy announces her reasons for wrecking the old ma- 
chinery in these words: ''The dissolution of the 
visible organization of the church, is the sequence 
and the compliment of the college corporation and 
association. The college disappeared, that the spir- 
it of Christ may have freer course amongst its stu- 
dents and all who come into the understanding of 
Divine Science; the bonds of the organization of the 
church were thrown away, so that the members 
might gather themselves together and provoke one 
another to good works in the bonds of love.'' 

When, however, the faithful got through with 
their jolifications, they found that Mrs. Eddy had 
played her usual cunning hand, and the old ma- 
chinery had been throvm on the rocks to make place 
for the new machinery that swept away the last and 
. the least remains of individual power or voice any- 
where in the Science world. Under the new system 
every member was absolutely gagged and shackled! 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 25 

Every Scientist, everywhere, was placed as ab- 
solutely in the hands of Mrs. Eddy, as the figures in 
a game of chess are the creatures of the players. 

In no religious movement ever launched have 
men and women been made the religious puppets of 
an egotistical, domineering, fame seeking head, as 
in this cult movement, where the so-called Scientist 
lives and moves and has his being. 

Throughout the Christian Science churches of 
the world a few pitiable jumping-jacks go through 
the mule-around-a-molasses-mill circle of religious 
worship, which Mrs. Eddy has outlined, and which 
must be rigidly adhered to, on penalty of instant ex- 
pulsion from the church. 

While the Manual of the Science church has its 
catch phrases, aud its wool-gathering, befuddling 
subterfuges, — to the honest investigator, the fact is 
as clear as day, that here is one of the most cun- 
ningly constructed pieces of legislation in the world, 
today, in so far as it magnifies, and glorifies, and de- 
ifies the head, and gags, and shackles, and hobbles, 
and enslaves the thousands who serve under that 
head. 

Under this new system Mrs. Eddy sat, with 
powers unlimited over everything that accepted the 
C. S. brand, and with the scratch of her pen she 
could, and did, write into oblivion some of the lead- 
ing workers of her cult. 

She judged all men, and was judged by none. 

From her scratching pen ran orders of excom- 
munication and villification beyond anything ever 
before witnessed under the head of religion. 

Every lecturer, and every reader, and every 
practitioner in the Christian Science world was the 
abject slave of this old, fame seeking, money grab- 
bing swindler; and these men and women were as 



26 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

subject to her caprice or whim, and as much her 
slave, as the most shrinking, pitiable black man was 
onciB the property and the slave of the most heart- 
less slave owner and subject to his caprice or whim. 

When you enter a Christian Science service, the 
first reader gets up, by orders of Mrs. Eddy, and an- 
nounces that he is going to read from '^ Science and 
Health with a Key to the Scriptures,'' WRITTEN 
BY MRS. MARY BAKER G. EDDY. 

Her name must ever be kept in the foreground. 

Then the puppet reads, and if he had the wisdom 
of a Dr. Henry Ward Beecher, when he has read the 
little lesson from the Science joke-book, he must sit 
down. He dare not even comment on the lesson, on 
the penalty of excommunication. 

The Science puppet, healer or what not, is faced 
wdth the threat of immediate expulsion from the 
church, unless he keeps Mrs. Eddy ever in the fore- 
ground, and her high priced books also well in the 
front. 

In my articles on the ''Isms," I ran an order 
from Mrs. Eddy, which appeared in the Christian 
Science Sentinel, in which she warns her followers 
that they must not alone use her books, and hers, 
only, but they must sell all these books possible, on 
the plain warning, that any failure to comply with 
the stipulation of this order, would lay the member 
liable, and would lead to his expulsion from the 
church. 

Forever and ever and ever, the Scientist is tied 
down to the disjointed, conglomerate, pantheistic, 
asinine contradictions of this so-called inspired 
book, and upon this they must feed, without com- 
ment or exposition. 

As a final cap-sheaf to this brazen and audacious 
piece of so-called religious legislation, Mrs. Eddy 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 27 

announces, in Article XXII, Section 4: ^^If the 
Author of Science and Health bear witness to the 
offense of mental malpractice, it shall be a sufl5cient 
evidence thereof." 

Now, my readers can better understand just what 
those words include, when they remember that Mrs^ 
Eddy was in deadly fear of what she chose to call 
^ * mental malpractice. ' ' 

While she taught repeatedly that *^Sin and the 
Sinner are nothingness," and that ^^man is incapa- 
ble of sin," yet she charged her one-time followers, 
Kennedy and Spofford, with committing adultery, 
and committing murder, and with severing friend 
from friend, through this thing called mental mal- 
practice. 

More than that, she charged Arnes with having 
killed her last husband, Mr. Eddy, by mental mal- 
practice, and she tried to get an attorney to enter 
the courts to prosecute Mr. Arnes for murder. 

Her students testified that she had them up often 
at all hours of the night, to help her fight off the at- 
tempts that her enemies, Spofford, Kennedy and 
Arnes, etc., were making to assassinate her through 
administering the destructive fluid called malicious 
animal magnetism. 

Now then, Mrs. Eddy announces to her church 
that if she pronounces sentence upon anyone for 
using mental malpractice, it shall be sufficient evi- 
dence that the party upon whom she pronounces 
judgment is guilty of that criminal deed. 

This little piece of legislation means one of two 
things, and that is, that either Mrs. Eddy believed 
she was possessed of the powers of Omniscience, and 
could read the thoughts of the mind anji understand 
the motives of the heart, or it was another of her 
brazen, cunningly devised methods through which 



28 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

she could remove the head of some puppet that re- 
fused to lick her hand, or someone who promised 
^^too much" in the faith. 

If she meant her followers to understand that 
she believed herself Omniscient, she should have 
been in the bug house, and if she believed that her 
followers had little enough sense to swallow such an 
absurd piece of legislation, she either should have 
been in the penitentiary, or these followers should 
have been in the home for the feeble minded. 

The next time you enter a Christian Science ser- 
vice, just remember this. 

They hold Mrs. Eddy up, because she has so or- 
dered. 

They read from the book. Science and Health, 
without comment, because she has so ordered. 

Just remember that you are watching a lot of re- 
ligious puppets go through a cut-and-dried perform- 
ance, outlined by Mrs. Eddy, and enforced by the 
most exacting laws and rules ever constructed to 
compel complete and uncomplaining submission by 
every member, everywhere. 

And yet, THESE MEN AND WOMEN TELL 
YOU THEY HAVE FOUND A NEW LIBERTY. 



THE BOOK. 

^^ Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach 
any other Gospel unto you than that which we have 
preached unto you, let him be accursed." Gal. 1:8. 

We have briefly discussed Mrs. Eddy, the wo- 
man; and Christian Science, the system; and now 
let us look at Science and Health, the book. 

Where did Mrs. Eddy get this book? 

She says, ^^I have found nothing in ancient or 
modern systems on which to found my own, except 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 29 

the teachings and demonstrations of our great mas- 
ter." 

In 1871, in a letter to W. W. Wright, of Lynn, in 
^.nswer to the question, ^'Has this theory ever been 
advertised and practiced before you introduced it, 
or by any other individual!" Mrs. Eddy says. ^^Nev- 
^r advertised, and practiced by only one individual, 
who healed me, Dr. Quimby, of Portland, Maine, an 
old gentleman who made it the research of twenty- 
five years, starting from the standpoint of magnet- 
ism, thence going forward and leaving that behind. ' ' 

In 1862, Mrs. Eddy, then a student under Quim- 
l)y, published articles in the Portland papers, seek- 
ing to interest the public in the wonderful discovery 
which Quimby had made. In these characteristic 
Eddy effusions, she likens him to Jesus Christ, and 
announces that he healed as Christ healed, ' ' He rolls 
away the stone from the sepulcher of error,'' she 
says, in one of the articles, '' and health is the resur- 
rection. ' ' 

When, finally, she began to realize something of 
the money tary value that might possible be tied up 
in this discovery, she made all haste to copyright the 
so-called science, and then it was she brazenly an- 
nounced to the world that the discovery was re- 
ceived direct from heaven, and was not taught her 
by man! 

When her letters and articles were produced as 
evidence in support of the contention that she had 
plagiarized the book, and had stolen the method, she 
repudiates all her written and published laudations 
of Dr. Quimby, her great benefactor, by announcing 
that if she wrote such things about him she must 
have been suffering under the bad influence of ^^ Ani- 
mal Magnetism," and she further avers that Dr. 



30 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

Quimby was hopelessly illiterate and a hypnotist. 

But since much of the commendatory material 
that is held as proof that Mrs. Eddy got her ideas 
from Quimby, were written by Mrs. Eddy several 
years after Quimby 's death, her charge that she was 
suffering under his hypnotic spell, when she wrote 
her laudations, will hardly hold water. 

Following the success of the introduction of this^ 
new religion, Mrs. Eddy conceived the notion that 
she and her book should rank second to none, and 
then began what the world has never witnessed be- 
fore and will probably never witness again — a par- 
tially successful attempt of a greedy old woman to 
place herself alongside Jesus Christ, and her book 
alongside His book. 

Every turn Mrs. Eddy made during her last 
days was with the studied and deliberate attempt to 
place herself side by side with Jesus of Nazareth. 

She announces : ' ' Our Master healed the sick and 
taught the generalities of its Divine Principle; but 
He left no definite rule for demonstrating His prin- 
ciples of healing and preventing disease. THIS 
EEMAINED to be DISCOVERED THROUGH 
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE." 

Again: ^^Even the scriptures gave no direct ba- 
sis for demonstrating the spiritual principle of heal- 
ing until our Father saw fit through the Key to the 
Scriptures in Science and Health to unlock the mys- 
tery of Godliness." 

While Christ and the Bible precede her, yet she 
modestly announces that she comes as the ^^ finish 
er," the ^^ fulfiller," of the incompleted work of 
Christ. 

Now listen: ^^No person,'' she says, ^^ can take 
the place of the Virgin Mary. No person can com- 
pass or fulfill the individual mission of Jesus of Naz-^ 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 31 

areth. NO PERSON CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF 
THE AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH— 
THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRIS- 
TIAN SCIENCE. Each individual (The Virgin 
Mary, Jesus and Mary Baker G. Eddy) must fill his 
or her own niche in time and eternity. 

There you have it — The Virgin Mary, The Spot- 
less Christ, and the Three-times-marri^d, no-body- 
seems-to know how many times divorced, home di- 
viding plagiarizing, fame-seeking, money-grabbing 
jealous, slanderous, despotic Mary Baker Glover Pat- 
terson Eddy, must stand side by side through the 
^easelese ages of eternity. 

In the Science temple Mrs. Eddy's sayings are 
just a little more conspicuously cut alongside the 
sayings of Jesus. 

In the Science worship. The FIRST READERS 
READ FROM SCIENCE AND HEALTH, AN- 
NOUNCING, ALWAYS THE NAME OF MARY 
BAKER G. EDDY; and the second reader reads 
from the "Word of God, and the name of eJesus may 
or may not be mentioned. 

Science and Health treats of such subjects as 
Spiritualism, Physiology, Theology, Demonology, 
Animal Magnetism, Medicine, Prayer, Science, 
Atonement, Marriage, Creation, etc., etc., and yet 
there is hopeless chaos in so far as order or continu- 
ity of thought are concerned, — the whole thing is as 
destitute of harmonious arrangement as it would be 
if the whole book were crammed into a shot-gun and 
fired into its present form. 

While other inen have labored faithfully over the 
Science Joke-Book, there seems to be as much of a 
hopeless jumble about it, today, as ever before. 

Mrs. Eddy explains her bad breaks in English, 
^nd her laborious attempts at expression, by this 



32 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

wonderfully Illuminating fact (???) She says^ 
^^ After my discovery of Christian Science, most of 
the knowledge I had gleaned from books ^nished 
like a dream," (it was here she claimed h . u/ow^ 
Greek and Latin left her) — 'learning was b.» illum- 
ined that grammar was eclipsed/' 

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, and again . 
say, my! * 

Someone has suggested that the eclipse in gram- 
mar was nearly a total one, and I might add, also a 
perpetual one. 

In this second study I have tried to whip into 
tangible form a few of the thousands of facts that 
have to do with the operations of the founder of 
Christian Science, and the Despotism of the System 
under which the Scientist shouts about his liberty; 
and the Book, around which the Eddyites cluster. 

In so far as the issues of this strange cult may 
affect the churches of the world, these issues must 
be taken up later. 

I add tAVO testimonials here, as a fitting close to. 
the second study. 

Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the OUTLOOK, 
says: '^I frankly confess to my Christian Science 
friends that I dread the enervating influences of a 
philosophy which denies the reality of evil; calls 
men off from courageous, patient and intelligent 
campaign against it, and bids them regard evil 
whether moral or physical, as onlj^ a mortal thought, 
to be vanquished by a process of spiritual thinking. ' ' 

Now, Dr. Abbott belongs to the new school, and 
the new school usually can stomach anything. 

Pundita Eamabai, a native of India says: ^^Oh 
my arrival in New York, I was told that a new 
philosophy was being taught in the United States 
and that it had won many disciples. This philos- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 33 

ophy, they said, was called Christian Science, and 
when I asked what its teachings were, I recognized 
it as being the same philosophy that has been taught 
amongst my people for fonr thousand years. It has 
wrecked millions of lives and caused immeasurable 
suffering and sorrow in my land, for it is based on 
selfishness, and knows no sympatjiy or compassion. ' ' 

''To sympathize with sin and suffering," says 
the Science edict, ^'it to dethrone God as the God of 
the universe." 

In talk number three we take up the question, 
'^ Is it Christian?" 



Is It Christian? 



TALK NUMBER THREE. 



( ( 



Because they received not the love of the truth, 
that they might be saved; and for this cause 
God shall send them strong delusion, that they 
should believe a lie.'' 2d Thessalonians 2:10-11. 

There is no swindle in all the world of religious 
swindles that is quite so cunningly constructed as 
Christian Science. 

There is no swindle in all the world of religious 
swindles that is quite so adroitly handled. 

There is no swindle in all the world of religious 
swindles that offers larger returns on such small in- 
vestments. 

According to the Christian Science schedule, you 
have only to work the lever of your thinking ap- 
paratus, and whatever is unpleasant, or threatening, 
in a crooked past, can be eliminated from the world 
of fact. 

According to the Christian Science schedule, you 
have only to work the lever of your thinking ap- 
paratus, and whatever is pleasant and desirable just 
ahead, becomes immediately yours. 

The land of fulfillment, of which you have 
dreamed, is yours to realize and yours to fully enjoy, 
just by a simple process of thinking. 

Christian Science stands out in the life of the na- 
tion as the nation's greatest religious mirage. 

All along the pathway of this cult you find the 
sad wrecks of a disappointed hope — the sick, and 
the suffering, and the dying, and the ^4ying," and 



^ 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 35 

around these and over these pass other thousands 
who climb on, and grab on, and smile on, ever reach- 
ing out for that elusive something, that intangible 
something, that seems always to be just an arm's 
length ahead. 

While these mirage chasers deny the reality of 
disease and death, the breath of disease blows upon 
them and they wilt, and the grim reaper passes along 
his hook, and another religious dupe has fallen vic- 
tim to the reality of the thing that his religion 
taught him never existed. 

Jesus Christ taught that the Christian way was 
not an easy way to travel. 

Jesus Christ talked a great deal about ^^The 
Cross," and about ^^Self Denial," and about the 
^* Narrow Way." 

Jesus Christ set the example of a ^ ' Gethsamane, ' ' 
c)iid a ^^ Judgment Hall," and ^^ Thorns," and a 
** cruel scourge." 

Jesus Christ has much to say about ^^sin" and 
'^suffering," about ^^ disease" and ^^ death," and 
about a ^^ judgment," and a ^^hell," and a ^^ hea- 
ven. ' ' 

Jesus Christ also said there would be those who 
would try to climb up some other way, and He warns 
us that these will stand as thieves and robbers — as 
those who would steal away the atoning merits of 
His shed blood, and rob men and women of their 
only hope for life and heaven. 

Multitudes turn to these cults because the cult 
offers an easier way. 

Multitudes turn to Christian Science because it 
offers larger dividends, on less effort and expense, 
than any other religion in the world. 

This religion (that we believe is pantheistic in a 
most pronounced sense), hides, its poisonous stingy 



36 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

like the asp, beneath the fruit and flowers — beneath 
the fruit and the flowers of church form and church 
language. 

While in reality it denies every doctrine for 
which the Church of Christ stands, it most vehe- 
mently professes to believe them all. 

In a newspaper controversy with one of the press 
agents of the Christian Science machine, in which 
he published the ^'Tenets'' of the Christian Science 
church as evidence to refute the charge that I had 
made, that Christian Science was not Christian, I 
challenged him, and even dared him to take up 
these '^Tenets'' one by one and define them. 

When I challenged this paid puppet of this re- 
ligious machine to analyze and define his terms, he 
did just what they will all do — he went trailing off 
into meaningless generalities, crying like, a distress- 
ed bird when you get too near her nest. 

This so-called creed, or these '^Tenets,'' are pub- 
lished with the deliberate attempt to deceive the 
susceptible, untaught multitudes of the Church of 
Christ. 

If Christian Science were stripped of its hocus- 
pocus, its meaningless and misleading phrases — in a 
more definite declaration; if Christian Science were 
stripped of its subtlety and its subterfuges and 
stood forth for what it is, the average church meipi- 
ber would not give this cult a passing thought. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE. 

^'For the prophecy came not in old time by the 
will of man ; but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost." 2nd Peter 1:21. 

^ * The material record of the Bible is no more im- 



^ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 



portant to our well being than the history of Europe 
or America. ' ' — Mrs. Eddy. 

^^In the beginning God created the heaven and 
the earth."— Bible. 

^'Is this true or is it a lie? Evidently this is a 
lie.'' — Mrs. Eddy. 

^ ^ God created man in His own image, in the im- 
age of God created He him.'' — Bible. 

'^Have ye not read, that he which made them at 
the beginning made them male and female?" — 
Christ. 

^^Adam is a product of nothing, an unreality." — 
Mrs. Eddy. 

^^I am the way, the truth, the life." — Christ. 

^^ Master to whom shall we go? thou hast the 
words of eternal life." — Disciples. ^ 

^^ There is but one way to heaven and harmony 
and Christ, and Divine Science shows us the way." 
—Mrs. Eddy. 

^^The ego is revealed in Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost; but THE FULL TEUTH IS FOUND ONLY 
IN DIVINE SCIENCE. ' '—Mrs. Eddy. 

The Bible says, ^ ^ God created man. ' ' 

Mrs. Eddy says, '^Man co-existed with God and 
the universe." 

The Bible says, ''God is a Spirit — God created 
the heaven and the earth." 

Mrs. Eddy says, ''Spirit never created matter." 

The Bible teaches us that "God is love." 

Mrs. Eddy says, "Love is GOD." 

The Bible teaches us that "God is good." 

Mrs. Eddy says, "Good is GOD." 

The^ Bible deifies God. 

Christian Science deifies an attribute of God. 

"In the BEGINNING God."— The Bible. 

"In the beginning — beginning signifies 'the 



38 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

only'-~-t]iat is, the eternal verity and unity of God 
and man. ' ^ — Mrs. Eddy. 

** Beginning," as nsed in the first verse of the 
Bible, signifies what Mrs. Eddy says it signifies, not 
because any Hebrew student in the world would 
permit any such rendering, or *^ rending,'' of the 
word, but wholly and solely because ^^Mrs. Mary Ba- 
ker Grlover Eddy" chooses to have it so translated. 

In the few instances given above we give a fair 
illustration of the wide gulf that yawns between 
the Bible, Christ, His disciples, and Mrs. Eddy. 

Mrs. Eddy calls her disjointed conglomeration of 
high sounding and often meaningless phrases, ^ ' The 
Key to the Bible," but wherever the key fails to 
work, she takes her hammer and breaks the lock. 

The Bible warns the church that there will be 
those who will *' wrest the scriptures to their dam- 
nation, ' ' and if this brazen, blasphemous concoction, 
called Science and Health, does not furnish a hor- 
rible example of ^^ wrested Scripture," then such an 
example does not exist. 

Mrs. Eddy reads into the Word of Grod, or out of 
the Word of God, whatever strikes her changing 
fancy, and when there is no chance to twist, or wrest 
the Scriptures, to fit her hodge-podge, she simply 
announces that this is an ^^ error" or a '4ie." 

Using the Eddyite system of Bible translation, I 
will give my readers a very striking illustration, and 
a very solemn warning, in the following r^-arranged 
scriptures. 

^^Now, the serpent (which is Christian Science), 
is more subtle than any beasts of the field (the cult 
world) which the Lord had made (or permitted), 
and he (Christian Science) said unto the woman 
(which is the Church of Christ), ^Yea, hath God 
said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden?' 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 39 

And the woman (the Church of Christ) said unto 
the serpent (Christian Science), 'we may eat of the 
fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of 
the tree which is in the midst of the garden, GOD 
HATH SAID, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye 
touch it, lest ye die/ And the serpent (Christian 
Science) said unto the woman (the Church of 
Christ), ;YE shall NOT SimELY DIE.!'/' 

Permitted to read into,or out of, or permitted to 
disjoint or disconnect, you can make God's Book, un- 
qualifiedly endorse any vagary hell may produce. 



THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GOD. 

Jesus Christ says, ^^ After this manner, there- 
fore, pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven. 
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy 
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this 
day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we 
forgive our debtors. And lead us not into tempta- 
tion, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the king- 
dom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen." 

Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy says, ^^When you 
pray, pray ye: Principle, eternal and harmonious, 
nameless and adorable intelligence. Thou art ever 
present and supreme; and when the supremacy of 
spirit shall appear, the supremacy of matter will 
disappear. Give us the understanding of truth and 
love, and loving, we shall learn God, and truth will 
destroy error. And lead us not into life that is soul; 
and deliver us from the error of sense, sin, sickness 
and death, for God is life, truth and love forever. 

The prayer of Jesus Christ was given to His fol- 
lowers and to the church of all lands and all ages as 
the model prayer, and, in keeping with His instruc- 



40 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

tions, all Christendom, through the centuries, has 
prayed this wonderful prayer. 

This prayer that Jesus taught the church, how- 
ever, does not fit into the Christian Science schedule, 
and so the first editions of Science and Health car- 
ried out to the world this brazen, blasphemous re- 
vision of the prayer which Jesus Christ pfayed. 

And why this revision? 

The Christian Scientist cannot pray the Lord's 
prayer without repudiating some of the foundation 
facts of his religion, and here Mrs. Eddy does with 
the Word of God just what she does with every other 
conflicting passage — she revises and remakes God's 
Holy Word into whatever patch-work, or crazy 
quilt, will best spread over her pantheistic theories. 

Jesus Christ says, ^^When you pray, pray ye: 
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN. " ^ Mrs. 
Eddy says, ^^When you pray, pray ye: Principle, 
eternal and harmonious." 

In these two prayers you have pretty clearly 
drawn the line of demarcation between the Chris- 
tian's conception of God and the Christian Scientist 
theory. 

The Christian worships an omnipotent, omnis- 
cient and omnipresent God — a personal God, who 
understands, loves, forgives, pities and helps. 

The Christian Scientist seeks to get in harmony 
with a Divine Principle, which is called the '^Only 
Mind." 

'^God," according to Christian Science, "is a 
principle. ' ' 

To use the anology of Mrs. Eddy, ^ ' God is of the 
same impersonal character as the principle of math- 
ematics." 

Repeatedly Mrs. Eddy uses this illustration to 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 41 

illustrate to the churcli and the world her conception 
of Deity. 

God is not alone a principle, after the same order 
as the principle of mathematics, but He is ' ^ the only 
principle.'' 

'^God is not person, or personal," Mrs. Eddy ^ 
says, and when the question comes, ^^What is God?" 
—(Not WHO is God, but WHAT is God?)— and the 
answer is, ' ' Mind, Principle, etc. ' ' 

Church members, generally, are deceived into 
believing that the Scientist worships the same God 
the Protestant church worships, but these, Gods are 
just as distinct, on the higher levels, as man is dis- 
tinct from the electric current that flashes along the 
wire. 

^^We acknowledge one Supreme God, we ack- 
nowledge His Son, and the Holy Ghost," says the 
creed of the Christian Scientist, but when you force 
them back to a definition of these terms, God is a 
^'principle," Christ is an ^4deal," and the Holy 
Ghost is '^Christian Science." v 



/^ligions more cunningly constructed, more artfully 
\ baited, for the gathering in of the untaught millions 
of the church than this. 

Christian Science denies the Personality of God, 
and reduces God to a principle, — a sort of a spoke in 
the fly wheel of creation. 

^^ There is no matter," saysJVErs. Eddy. ^^Mind 
is all," and, furthermore, ^^God is the only mind," 
which stripped and stood forth for what it is, Chris- 
tian Science stands revealed to the honest investi- 
gator as Pantheism, bald and blasphemous. 

This Mrs. Eddy denies, and on the ground that 
^* Pantheism is a belief in the intelligence of mat- 
ter." 






42 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

Since little apples began to grow, no student has 
ever heard such a definition of Pantheism — if Pan- 
theism is a belief in the intelligence of matter, as 
Mrs Eddy says, then Christian Science is not Pan- 
theism, and furthermore, there is no Pantheism. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND PRAYER. 

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the 
one a Pharisee (Christian Scientist), and the other a 
publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus 
WITH HIMSELF— (within himself)—' God I thank 
thee, that I am not as other men/ etc. (Man is in- 
capable of sin — sin and the sinner are nothingness, 
so, says Christian Science). And the publican 
standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his 
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, 
God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man 
went down to his house justified." Luke 18:10-14. 

Here is a perfect illustration of the striking dif- 
ference in the prayer of the Scientist and the prayer 
of the Protestant church. In the prayer which Jesus 
Christ taught us to pray, we are to pray, '^Forgive 
us our trespasses," and here again He has the pub- 
lican smiting his breast and saying, ' ' God be merci- 
ful to me a sinner." 

Mrs. Eddy says, in her chapter on prayer, 
*^ Prayer to a personal God is a hindrance, a misap- 
prehension of the source of their own beliefs. God 
is not influenced by man, and the habit of pleading 
with the divine mind as we plead with a human be- 
ing perpetuates the belief in God as humanly cir- 
cumscribed, an error that impedes spiritual 
growth." 

Jesus Christ prayed whole nights, and urged His 
followers to importune at the Throne of Grace — 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 43 

that to '^ask," was to receive, and to *'seek'' was to 
find, and to '^ knock'' was to have the door opened 
unto them. 

All the saints of all the ages were men who 
wrestled alone with God, often through whole weary 
nights, until they prevailed and won the blessings 
they sought, and, with life enriched and empowered 
with the double portion, they have gone out to shake 
entire communities for Christ and His church. 

To pray to a personal God is hindrance, Mrs. 
Eddy says, and, furthermore, such praying perpetu- 
ates the belief that God is humanly circumscribed! 

Now, in making such a statement concerning the 
Christian conception of prayer, Mrs. Eddy either 
spoke in pitiable ignorance of the Christian concep- 
tion of prayer, or else it was another of those many 
attempts — deliberate and dishonest attempts — to 
mis-state the Christian's idea of God and prayer. 

Any ten-year-old child that knows the first prin- 
ciples of our Holy religion, knows that when we 
plead with God — our Heavenly Father — ^we plead 
with Him to act for us, just because we believe that 
He is not ^^ humanly circumscribed." 

Again, in this crude concoction of falsehood and 
fancy called prayer, she says, ^^It implies the vain 
supposition that we have nothing to do but ask par- 
don, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat 
the offense." 

If Mrs. Eddy believed that she was correctly 
stating the Christian's conviction concerning for- 
giveness, it only shows how utterly and hopelessly 
ignorant she was on the simplest facts of the Chris- 
tian faith, and if she knew better, then she was de- 
liberately seeking to mislead the public and villify 
the church. 

While Christian Scientists profess to pray and 



44 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

to pray mucli, prayer, as the church has been 
taught to pray, is positively unknown to the Science 
church. 

Mrs. Eddy says, ^^It is principle, not person, that 
saves man instead of pardons him," and again, ^^All 
sensation is mind, and mind is God; hence there is 
but one mind, and this one is infinite, supplying all 
minds by REFLECTION, not sub-division of him- 
self.'' 

Prayer, in the Christian Science cult, is a sort of 
a mental reverie, or an inaudible soliloquy, or an at- 
tempt at auto-suggestion or hypnotism. 

Furthermore, this sort of praying will have an 
answer, according to the Science argument, because 
^^we put our desires into practice." 

In other words, you are to turn back into your- 
self and seek there what you have been taught to 
seek before the Throne of Grace. 

The Christian has been taught to pray ^^by" the 
Holy Spirit. ^^We know not what we should pray 
for — the Holy Spirit himself maketh intercession for 
us with groaning which cannot be uttered," says St. 
Paul. 

The Christian has been taught to pray ^ through" 
Jesus Christ — ^^ Whatsoever ye shall ask in MY 
NAME," says Jesus. 

The Christian has been taught to pray ' ' TO ' ' the 
Father — ^ ^ How much more will your Heavenly 
Father give to them that ask." 

^^By" the Holy Spirit, ^ through" Jesus Christ, 
'*T0" the Father, is the Christian avenue of prayer, 
but the Christian Scientist prays ^^by" Mrs. Eddy, 
^ through Science and Health, to the Divine Prin- 
ciple,. or the ^Only Mind,' of which jou are a part," 
therefore, like the Pharisee spoken of above, the 
Scientist prays ^^with himself" — or within himself. 



The Deity of Christ 



TALK NUMBER FOUR 

^^Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus 
is the Christ." 1st John 2:22. ^^Now the birth of 
Jesus Christ was on this wise — the angel of the Lord 
appeared nnto him (Joseph) in a dream, saying, 
'Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto 
thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived of 
her is of the Holy Ghost.' " Matthew 1:18. 

^'The birth of Jesus Christ," says Mrs. Eddy, 
''was on this wise: The illumination of Mary's 
spiritual life put to silence material law and its 
order of generation, and brought forth a child by 
the revelation of truth. ' ' 

. Again she says, ''the spiritual idea, Christ, 
dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God, from 
which it illumines heaven and earth." 

Please notice, that not alone does Mrs. Eddy 
flatly contradict the Gospel statements concerning 
the miraculous conception and the virgin birth, but 
in keeping with her foundation teaching, that ' ' God 
is a principle and we the reflection of that principle, 
and Christ is but an idea sent forth from the one 
minds, God," she says, "the spiritual idea, Christ, 
dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God from 
which it illumines heaven and earth." 

The "spiritual idea" — Christ, dwells "forever 
in the bosom of the Father," from which ^^IT" ill- 
umines heaven and earth. 

Again Mrs. Eddy says, "Tritheism impossible. 
The theory of three persons in one God (that is a 



46 ' CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polytheism 
rather than one ever present I AM." 

Mohammed tells us in the Koran, '^verily, Christ 
Jesus, the Son of Mary is the Apostle of God. Be- 
lieve therefore in God and His apostles and say not 
there are three Gods. ' ' 

As between the Christian Science conception of 
Jesus Christ and the Mohammedan conception of 
Jesus Christ, the Mohammedan Conception is by far 
the more acceptable of the two. 

From a recent issue of the Christian Science 
Sentinel, I take the following testimony offered by 
a Jew: ^^ Whenever and wherever I attend a Chris- 
tian Science service, I find a goodly number of Jews 
enthusiastically taking part in the services, ajid tes- 
tifying to the grand verity of this teaching. I desire 
to express my profound gratitude, for the bringing 
of so many of these people, my people, into this won- 
derful truth. I was born a Jew of the tribe of Judah, 
and raised an Israelite, that is, in the fear of the 
Lord, and now I am a Christian Scientist, to me a 
grand evolution, a spiritual growth. I have come 
into the understanding of man's unity with God, the 
self-same God of Israel, whom I have learned to 
know more intimately as the ever present God, who 
is always ready and willing to aid and guide us in 
everything that is good. Christian Science teaches 
that God is love, ^the underived, the incomparable, 
the infinite ALL of good, the ALONE God.' '' (Mis- 
cellaneous writings page 249. 

Notice that this Israelite, (Israel Gittelson) 
quotes Mrs. Eddy where she refers to God as the 
^^ALL'' of good, and the ^^ALONE/' God. We give 
the quotation as he gave it, in capitals, and doubly 
emphasized. 

When one comes to know the Christ the Chris- 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 47 

tian Scientists worship, it means nothing that thous- 
ands of Jews are flocking to the Christian Science 
standard. 

St. Paul says, ^^we preach Christ crucified, unto 
the Jew a stumbling block, and unto the Greek fool- 
ishness. ' ' 

Mrs. Eddy says, ^^We preach Christ Idealized — 
the spiritual idea, dwelling forever in the bosom of 
the Father, from which ^IT' illumines heaven and 
earth. ' ' 

' ' The theory of three persons in one God, that is 
a personal Trinity, suggests heathen Gods," says 
Mrs. Eddy. 

And again Mrs. Eddy says, ^'Christ is a Divine 
principle, not a person." 

And yet again she says, ^ ^ God is a principle, and 
principle cannot pardon." 

Over against the assertions of Mrs. Eddy that 
there are not three ^persons in the Trinity, and that 
Christ is not a person but an ^4dea," and that God 
is only a principle and principle cannot pardon, one 
might practically stand the whole Bible. 

^^Eetum unto the Lord," says the Word of 
God, ^^and He will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 
55:7. 

^^If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins." 1 John 1:9. 

Yet Mrs. Eddy says, ^^God is a principle and 
principle cannot pardon." 

Again, ^^The word became flesh, and dwelt 
amongst us, (and we beheld His glory, glory as of 
the only begotten from the Father), full of grace 
and truth." John 1:14. 

^'He took on Him the seed of Abraham." He- 
brews 2:16. 



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^'A spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me 
have.'' Luke 24:39. 

And yet Mrs. Eddy says, ^^ Christ is a divine 
principle, not a person. 

^^ Baptising them in the name of the Father, and 
in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy 
Ghost." Matt. 28:19. 

'^The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 
love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit 
be with you all.'' II Cor. 13:14. 

But Mrs. Eddy says, ''the theory of three per- 
sons in one God, that is a personal Trinity, suggests 
lieathen Gods." 

Jew, Universalist, Unitarian, Transmigrationist, 
with every other creed and breed, that sets itself 
in opposition to the Deity of Christ and the efficacy 
of His shed blood, can find welcome and refuge under 
the Christian Science banner; and further, there 
need be no surrender of any of the devil inculcated, 
and hell engendered animosity that these breeds 
hold against the crucified Christ — the Christ who 
poured out His ^^ blood as a ransom for many." 

A very prominent physician of the West gave 
me the pathetic story of an Eastern professor who 
had come to his city with tuberculosis. Who, when 
he had done all that medical science could do to pro- 
long life, was asked by the dying man whether or 
not he should take up Christian Science. ' ' The pro- 
fessor told me," the doctor said, ^Hhat the Chris- 
tian Scientists had been visiting him and had as- 
sured him that they could cure him. And that he 
had come to believe that Christian Science was his 
only hope." ^'I assured him," said the doctor, 'Hhat 
if I were in his place, I certainly would give Chris- 
tian Science a trial. I was called back a few months 
later, to find the man dying. ^ Doctor,^ said he, *I 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 49 

have sent for you to beg of you that under no cir- 
cumstances whatever will you ever again advise one 
of your patients to take up Christian Science. I 
have many reasons for asking you that you never 
again permit yourself to turn your patients over to 
a Christian Science practitioner, and the main rea- 
son is that they EOB YOU OF YOUR PERSONAL 
LORD." 

This dying man, who had known the consolation 
and the inspiration of the crucified, risen and glori- 
fied Christ, was lying dying and crying out with 
Mary of old, ' ' they have taken away my Lord, and I 
know not where they have laid Him.'' 



THE DEATH OF CHRIST. 

^^And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up 
the Ghost.'' Mark 15:37.^ 

^'Then came the soldiers and brake the legs of 
the first, and of the other which was crucified with 
Him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that He 
was dead already, they brake not His legs." John 
19:33. 

'^And (Christ) said unto them, thus it is written, 
and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise 
from the dead the third day." Luke 24:46. 

^^I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold,, 
I am alive f orevermore. " Revelation 1:18. 

The most tremendous facts of the Christian re- 
ligion gather about the Cross of Christ. 

The Deity of Christ, with His death, atonement, 
resurrection, ascension, and return, combine to make 
the whole foundation work of the Christian church. 

When Mrs. Eddy faced the Cross of Christ, she 
faced there the greatest problem of her checkered 
career, as a religious teacher. 



50 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

To most teacliers, who have any knowledge 
whatever of all the issues that cluster about the 
crucifixion of Jesus Christ, there has come more or 
less of hesitancy in promulgating theories that 
cheapen in any way the awful sacrifice made at Cal- 
vary. 

In Christian Science it is the usual brazen, blas- 
phemous story, of wrested Scriptures, and substi- 
tuted phrases, for which infallibilitj^ is claimed, a 
concocted storj' that repudiates the Gospel message 
by which millions have been saved from sin. 

One thing is absolutely certain, either Jesus- 
Christ and His disciples were hopelessly ignorant 
concerning the happenings of Golgotha's hill, or else 
Christian Science stands out in the cult kingdom as 
the most unblushing swindle that has ever been 
passed out to gullible people. 

As we shall undertake to show later in this mes- 
sage, not alone does Mrs. Eddy make the blood of 
Christ an unholy thing, or an unnecessary thing, but 
she even denies that Christ died on the Cross, and 
necessarily so. 

If the foundation teaching of Christian Science 
is true, and God is but a ^'principle," and Jesus 
Christ is but an ^4dea," and man is but the '^ reflec- 
tion" of this principle, and all alike are incapable 
of sin, suffering, and death, then certainly Christ 
did not die. 

While Christian Science literature abounds in 
terms and phrases that imply a Christian Science 
belief in the reality of the crucifixion anci the resur- 
rection, these tei^ms and phrases, when analyzed, 
dissolve into nothingness. 

According to the Christian Science, mortal mind 
has no real existence, and yet it is the creator of 
false beliefs such as matter, sin, sickness, and death- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 51 

Again, according to Christian Science, there is 
no matter, but matter, analyzed and reduced to its 
proper channel, is mortal mind, and this mortal 
mind visits upon the body whatever sin, sickness or 
death the body may appear to be heir to. 

And yet again, sin is nothingness, and the sin- 
ner is nothingness, and yet according to the Chris- 
tian Science schedule, sin created the sinner. 

This is only a fair sample of the mental gymnas- 
tics through which one must pass in trying to find 
some permanent peg in the Christian Science dream 
world, on which to hang a definite conclusion. 

Repeatedly and explicitly and unconditionally, 
the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ actually died, 
and was actually buried, and on the third day He 
actually rose from the dead. 

But this line of teaching does not fit the fantas- 
tic pyrotechnics of the Christian Science cult, and 
so these statements are repudiated and thrown over- 
board with the following astounding declaration: 

First, Mrs. Eddy, says, ^^The fleshy Jesus seem- 
ed to die!" We don't know how it sounds to the ear 
of the average worshiper of the Holy Christ to have 
Him referred to as the '^ fleshy Jesus," but to the 
author of these messages, it is obnoxious beyond the 
power of language to express. 

Again, Mrs. Eddy says, '^ After what seemed to 
be His death." 

And yet again, referring to St. Paul's wonderful 
declaration, ^'We are reconciled to God through the 
death of His Son," Mrs. Eddy reads in her favorite 
word, and leaves the declaration a joke by quoting 
St. Paul as follows: ^^We were reconciled to God by 
the seeming death of His Son. ' ' 

Concerning the three days that the body of our 
Lord laid in the tomb, Mrs. Eddy says, ''His disd- 



52 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

pies believed Jesus to be dead, while He was hidden 
in the sepulcher, whereas He was alive, demonstrat- 
ing within the narrow tomb the power of spirit ta 
over-rule mortal, material sense.'' 

If this were true, then what an unpardonable 
crime Christ committed against His disciples, for 
out into, the world these men went preaching a cru- 
cified and resurrected Lord. And for this truth 
eleven out of twelve of these men died violent deaths ! 

^^But," Christian Scientists may say, ^^ Mrs. Eddy 
taught that Jesus' students saw Him after the cru- 
cifixion and learned that He had not died." 

To be true, Mrs. Eddy taught this, but we chal- 
lenge Christian Scientists to produce one line of 
Scripture for any such asinine teaching. 

Whole pages of the inspired Word of God con- 
cerning the crucifixion and resurrection are repudi- 
ated and thrown over-board by this money grabbing,, 
praise seeking, egotistical old ignoramus, and yet 
men and women of more than average intelligence 
will accept her as the Alpha and Omega of the re- 
ligious teaching of the world. 

According to Christian Science, Jesus only seem- 
ed to die on an imaginary cross, and was placed in 
an imaginary tomb, where for three days He prac- 
ticed Christian Science, healing His unreal body of 
unreal wounds, which He had received on an unreal 
cross, while dying a death He never died. And His 
students (another of Mrs- Eddy's inventions) were 
informed later on that while they were weeping over 
His death. He was only pretending to be dead. 

'^I am He that liveth and was dead," said Christ. 

^' Jesus only ^seemed' to die," says Mrs. Eddy. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 53 

THE ATONEMENT. 

^^Now I make known unto you, brethren, the 
Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye re- 
ceived, wherein also ye stand, by which also ye are 
saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached un- 
to you except ye believe in vain. For I delivered un- 
to vou first of all that which I also received; How 
THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORD- 
ING TO THE SCRIPTURES.'' 1 Corinthians 15:1. 

^'Without shedding of blood is no remission.'^ 
Hebrews 9:22. 

^^How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal spirit offered Himself without 
blemish unto God, cleanse." Hebrews 9:14. 

' ' My blood .... is shed for many for the remission 
of sins." Matthew 26:28. 

Over against these explicit statements of Jesus 
Christ, and His inspired followers, I place the con- 
tradictory statements of Mrs. Eddy. 

Mrs. Eddy says, ^'One sacrifice, however great, 
is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement 
requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's 
part." 

Again she says, ^^The atonement is the exempli- 
fication of man's unity with God.'' 

And again, ' ' The material blood of Jesus was no 
more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed 
upon the accursed tree, than when it was flowing in 
His veins as He went daily about His Father's bus- 
iness. ' ' 

These declarations of hers, while giving the lie 
to the statements of Jesus Christ and His apostles, 
are necessary statements. 

If, as Christian Science teaches, ^^God is a prin- 



54 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

ciple, ' ' after the same order as the principle of math- 
ematics, and we are the reflection of that principle, 
hence incapable of sin, it stands to reason that in 
such a religious system there would be no place for 
the Christian conception of the atonement. 

To talk about reconciliation between the ^^reflec- 
tion" of a ^ ^ principle ' ' and the '^ principle " itself, 
is to swing out to the fartliest reaches of absurdity. 

The shadow of a man is incapable of sin, suffer- 
ing, and death, and certainly it would be ludicrous 
to the extreme to talk about reconciliation between 
a man's shadow and the man. And of course it is 
more ludicrous to talk of reconciling a '^ reflection '* 
' — man, to a ^ ^ principle, " God." 

'^The only reality of sin," says Mrs. Eddy, ''is 
the awful fact that it seems real to human belief." 

^^ Christian Science would save the people from 
any imaginary disasters that come through the illus- 
ory sin, by teaching the sinner that he is not a sin- 
ner;" that '^both sin, and the sinner alike, are noth- 
ingness." 

Christian Science further teaches that God is 
mind — the only mind, and we are^^he full expres- 
sion of mind," and further, ''there is nothing in us 
which is not of God." And further still, ''God is all 
in all. God is good. Therefore all is good. There- 
fore there can be no evil. ' ' Which followed out to its 
last analysis means that God is God in St. Paul, or 
in the Emperor Nero. That God is God in D. L. 
Moody, or John Wilkes Booth. And that God is 
God in men and women everywhere on whatever 
levels they choose to live their lives. 

Such teaching is not alone absurdly false, but it 
is damnably pernicious, and the fruits of such teach- 
ing will begin to make themselves known when you 
reach the second and third generations of Scientists. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 55 

For if men and women are to believe that head- 
aches are not real, and cancers are not real, and that 
dishonesty is not real, and that immorality is not 
real, it does not require the fore-vision of a propjiet 
to predict what mental and moral and spiritual mon- 
strosities this cult will eventually" breed. 

The only hope of the race rests in its conscious- 
ness of right and wrong, and in the moral sensitive- 
ness that has led the race to make distinctions be- 
tween the evil and the good. 

Any religions that teaches ^^ there is no will that 
is not God's will," and therefore no act that is not 
God's act, is not alone blasphemous to the fartherest 
reaches of blasphemy, but is also a crime against 
God's moral universe. 

In an article under the general head of the 
'^Isms," j)nblished about a year ago, I gave the fol- 
lowing summing up of the Christian Science idea 
concerning Jesus Christ, His advent into the world, 
His seeming death, seeming resurrection, and seem- 
ing ascension: 

^'Mortal mind (that never existed) thought 
thoughts of eVil that were never thought, and did 
deeds of evil that were never done, and an imper- 
sonal mind, called God, sent to this material world, 
(that never existed) a living .manifestation of Him- 
self, in a material body (that never existed), that 
He might be the way-shower, directing the minds of 
men (which never had any existence apart from the 
one mind, God), how to overcome evil (which never 
had am^ existence and of which God had no knowl- 
edge). This living manifestation of God was known 
as Jesus Christ. After He had lived in a material 
body (which never existed) for more than thirty 
three years. He was arrested, tried, and crowned 
with thorns (that never existed), and whipped with 



56 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

a scourge (that never existed) and was nailed to 
a cross (that never existed), where He died a death 
which He did not die. He was buried in a tomb 
(that never existed), and there in the tomb He prac- 
ticed Christian Science and healed Himself of un- 
real wounds in His unreal body, which He had re- 
ceived in His unreal death. He arose, passed 
through some sort of an ascension and was rejoined 
to the one impersonal mind from which He had 
never been separated." 

As ludicrous as this statement may appear on 
first reading, stripped, boiled down, and run into a 
tangible form, the statement is a fair and honest set- 
ting forth of the Christian Science conception of 
Christ and His Cross. It is the old story over again, 
of taking away the underlying and tremendous facts 
of the Christian religion, to substitute meaningless 
phrases, and to read in cunningly woven generali- 
ties that leave the Gospel story a vast structure of 
fable, falsehood and fancy. 



The Deity of Christ 



TALK NUMBER FIVE. 

^^Be it known unto you all and to all the people 
of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Naz- 
areth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the 
dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before 
you whole. Neither is there salvation in any other; 
for there is none other name under heaven given 
among men whereby ye must be saved." Acts 4: 
10-12. 

The crowning event of Christian Science is not 
what it does for the souls of men, but what it does 
for the bodies of men. 

Attend a mid-week service in a Christian 
Science church, and you will find the service is prac- 
tically given over to a laudation of Christian Science, 
through what it has done in healing the physical 
man of real, or imaginary ailments. 

The Christian Scientist has very little to say 
about Jesus Christ as a Savior from sin, and neces- 
sarily so. 

According to the Christian Science theory, man 
is self existent, like God, and co-existent with God. 

Man was not made out of the dust of the earth, 
because matter is non-existent, and further, man has 
no sins to be saved from, and therefore no need of 
a Savior. 

^^But," someone inquires, ^^do not Christian 
Scientists profess to have a Savior in the Christian 
Science Christ?'' 

Yes and no. In so far as the Christian's conception 



58 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

of Christ, the Savior, is concerned, they most em- 
phatically do not. To the Christian Scientist, Christ 
is a '^ Spiritual idea'' — ^^an impersonal Savior,'' — 
^'a disappearing incorporeal concept." Mind you, 
Christ is not a person according to the Christian 
Science theory, nor is God a person. 

The foundation teaching of Christian Science is 
that ^'God is a principle," and we are the ^^reflec- 
tion of that principle," and Jesus Christ is but a 
.*^ spiritual idea" sent forth from the one supreme 
mind, to become ' ' the impersonal way-shower, ' ' who 
through His ^^ seeming'* death, and '^seeming" res- 
urrection, made a ^^ seeming" atonement for the 
*^ seeming" sins of the people. And the real mean- 
ing of this '^seeming" atonement is to be found in 
this sort of a declaration by Mrs. Eddy, '^The effi- 
cacy of the crucifixion lay in the practical affections 
and goodness it demonstrated for man-kind." 

If the sinner were real, and his sins were real, 
and a real judgment day was fast swinging into 
v'iew, men and women would be in an appalling 
state, with only ^^an impersonal Savior," or *^a dis- 
appearing incorporeal concept, ' ' with which to meet 
the awful issues of an unending eternity. 

But turning again to the Christian Science sched- 
ule, how does this ^^ spiritual idea" or this ^'disap- 
pearing incorporeal concept" — this " impersonal 
Savior" save? Let Mrs. Eddy answer. 

''Final deliverance from error (and remember 
that sin is only an error to the Christian Scientist) is 
not reached by pinning one's faith without works 
to another's vicarious effort." Again she says. 
His (Christ's) consummate example was for the sal- 
vation of us all, through the healing works which 
He did." 



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Mind you it is the example of Christ which 
saves, and not His shed blood. 

But the sinner knows that an ^* example'' cannot 
take the load of sin from his heart. 

The sinner knows that an ^^ example'' cannot 
wash away the dark past. 

The sinner knows that an ^ ' example ' ' cannot pay 
the penalty of a mis-directed life. 

An ^ impersonal" Savior, who is only a beau- 
tiful ideal," whose only power to save is the power 
that is found in the excellent moral precepts that 
He gave, and the pure life that He lived; who is no 
longer the God-man, and not even a man; whose 
blood had no sacrificial atoning, or propitiatory 
power; who, in dying a ^^ seeming" death, hastened 
that seeming death by predicting it; and who hid in 
the grave three days, pretending to be dead, is not 
the Savior of the four Gospels, or of Paul, or Peter, 
or James, or John. 

The Christ of Christendom, through the power 
of whose name the whole world has been all but 
revolutionized, and under whose banner the blood 
bought and blood washed armies of His kingdom 
are marching on to greater contests, is not the ether- 
ealized, idealized, Christ of Christian Science. 

According to Christian Science, it is not the 
blood of Christ which saves, but the example, main- 
ly through the healing works which He did. 

We need not sing ^' Jesus Paid It All, All to Him 
I Owe, ' ' for, according to Mrs. Eddy, ^ ' one sacrifice, 
however great, would be insufficient to pay the debt 
of sin." 

Mind you, Mrs. Eddy teaches, ^'that the only 
reality of sin is the fact that it seems real to human 
belief," and further, ^^sin and the sinner alike are 
nothingness," and yet despite her contention that 



60 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

sin does not exist, that it is '^nothingness/' she has 
the audacity to tell the world that the awful death 
of God's Son, on Calvary's cruel tree, could not be 
a sacrifice sufficiently great to pay the debt of sin. 



THE RESURRECTION. 

''Then opened He their understanding that they 
might understand the Scriptures, and said unto 
them, 'thus it is written, and thus it behooves 
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third 
day.'" Luke 24:45-46. 

"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I my- 
self; handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh 
and bones as ye see Me have." Luke 24:39. 

"The belief that material bodies return to dust, 
hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies, with material 
sensations, is incorrect." — Mrs. Eddy. 

"Warning people against death is an error." — 
Mrs. Eddy. 

"When Jesus' students saw Him after His cruci- 
fixion, they learned He had not died."— Mrs. Eddy. 

"The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a 
refuge from His foes," where "He met and mas- 
tered, on the basis of Christian Science, all the 
claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene. — But it 
was -not a supernatural act." — Mrs. Eddy. 

"His disciples believed Jesus dead, while He 
was hidden in the sepulcher." — Mrs. Eddy. 

"Now, if Christ be preached that He rose from 
the dead, how say some among you that there is no 
resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resur- 
rection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if 
Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and 
your faith is also vain." 1 Cor. 15:12-14. 



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''Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding 
that Lazarus had never died/' Mrs. Eddy. 

''Then said Jesus unto them, PLAINLY, LAZ- 
ARUS IS DEAD. And he that was dead came 
forth." John 11:14 and 44. 

"Miracles are impossible in Science." Mrs. 
Eddy. 

"Then gathered the chief priests and Pharisees 
-a council, and said, 'what do we? For this man doeth 
many miracles.' " John 11:47. 

Here as everywhere else, there is open warfare 
between the Word of God and the teachings of 
Christian Science. The Word of God teaches us that 
Jesus Christ died a real death on a real Cross, for 
real sins committed in a real body, in a real world, 
where humans live, suffer, sin, and die. Christian 
Science flatlv contradicts all this, and teaches its 

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followers that Christ is only an "idea," sent forth 
from the "Supreme Mind," to pass through a 
"seeming" death, and a "seeming" resurrection, 
to become a way-shower, who, through the "exam- 
ple" of an ideal life, brings men and women to real- 
ize their At-one-ment with the Supreme Mind. 

In the Christian Science schedule, the cruel 
cross, the flowing blood, the broken body, with the 
awful havoc and woe wrought by that something 
called sin, must be forgotten. 

"And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake 
it, and gave unto them, saying, 'this is my body, 
which is given for you; this do in remembrance of 
me' — 'this cup is the new testament in mv blood, 
which is shed for you.' " Luke 22:19-20. 

In the early days of the Christian Science 
•church, an imitation communion service was held, 
not as a communion service, but rather as a "morn- 



62 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

ing meal," and in later vears even that was done 
away with! 

The passover which Jesus ate with His disciples^ 
according to Mrs. Eddy/ ^ was a mournful occasion^ 
a sad supper, closing forever Jesus' ritualism, or 
concession to matter/' 

Again she says, ^ ^ The spiritual meeting with our 
Lord in the dawn of a new light, is the morning meal 
which Christian Scientists commemorate." 

^^Tllis do in remembrance of me," was the com- 
mand of Jesus, but Christian Scientists must not 
meditate upon such a sad fact in the life of our Lord, 
so Mrs. Eddy over-rides the command of Jesus 
Christ and says it is better to forget this ^^sad sup- 
per, taken at the close of the day — with the shad- 
ows falling around. 

Thus the whole subject of sin and the atonement 
and the resurrection are treated with sacrilegious 
contempt, and the Lord's prayer, by being relegated 
into the limbo of useless things to be substituted 
for with a parody sufficiently crude to make the devil 
blush. 

To be true, the average convert to Christian 
Science is blind to the fact that the underlying 
teachings of Christian Science are so wholly out of 
harmony with every fundamental doctrine, which 
the church has held sacred. 

The central teaching of Christian Science is that 
Christ did not die for the sins of the people, for 
there is no sin. 

All the unreasoning hatred of the cohorts of hell 
centralizes and focalizes on the blood stained cross 
of Christ. 

All the cunning of which hell is capable has ever 
been directed to the impossible task of obliterating 
Calvary. 



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**I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, 
I am alive f orevermore, ' ' says Christ, — and further, 
^^I am the resurrestion and the life!" 

' ' Truth will be to ns the resmTection, says Mrs. 
Eddy, ^^only as it destroys all error, and the belief 
that mind, the only immortality of man, can be fet- 
tered by the body.'^ 



THE ASCENSION. 

^*Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from 
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye 
have seen Him go unto heaven." Acts 1:11. 

^^ Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is com- 
ing, and now it, when the dead shall hear the voice 
of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. 
Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which 
all that are in the grave shall hear His voice, and 
shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the 
resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, 
unto resurrection of damnation.'' 

^^Eesurrection is ascending thought. Our Master 
appeared to His students, that is to their apprehen- 
sion. He rose from the grave on the third day of 
His ascending thought, and so presented to them 
the certain sense of eternal life." Mrs. Eddy. 

^^In His resurrection and ascension, Jesus show- 
'ed that a mortal man is not the real essence of man- 
hood, and that this unreal, material mortality dis- 
appears in the presence of reality." Mrs. Eddy. 

^^The belief that material bodies return to dust, 
hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies, with mater- 
ial sensations, is incorrect." Mrs. Eddy. 

When Mrs. Eddy speaks of the resurrection and 
the ascension of Jesus Christ, you must keep in 



64 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

mind the sort of resurrection the Christian Scientist 
is asked to believe in, and the sort of an ascension 
that follows that ^^fake" resurrection. 

The ascension of Jesus Christ is only the beauti- 
ful ^^deal" sent forth from the ^'supreme mind,'^ 
which becomes in the ascension, quoting Mrs. Ed- 
dy's exact language,'' an ascending thought.'' 

^^ Behold I show you a mystery," says St. Paul. 
^*We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,, 
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead 
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be chang- 
ed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, 
and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Cor. 
15:51-52. 

According to the Word of God, Jesus Christ died 
the death of the cross, and was buried, and on the 
third day the breath of God swept through the life- 
less clay, and Christ arose from the dead. Accord- 
ing to the Word of God, Christ appeared to a multi- 
tude of witnesses, in bodily form, demanding that 
the skeptical questioners handle Him, and see that 
the body was real, and with His disciples. He ate the 
morning meal at the sea of Tiberias, and in this 
glorified body, after forty days. He ascended into 
the heavenly world, from which He shall some day 
come to judge the quick and the dead. ' ' Let not your 
heart be troubled," He exhorted His followers, for 
**In My Father's house are many mansions; if it 
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare 
a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for 
you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; 
that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3. 

Added to her denial of the crucifixion and the 
resurrection, and her absurd explanations, that the 
ascension of Jesus Christ was only ^* ascending 



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thought, ' ' she here again flatly contradicts the plain 
statement of Jesus Christ concerning heaven. 

Heaven, Jesus Christ repeatedly affirmed, was a 
place which He and the Father were building for the 
faithful, and He left the comforting assurance that 
some of these days He would return to gather us 
into that heavenly place. 

Over against these oft repeated statements of 
Jesus Christ, Mrs. Eddy throws her bold, bald de- 
nial, and she says, ^* Heaven is not a locality, but a 
divine state of mind." 

*^ Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven," 
is the declaration of the inspired writer in 2nd 
Kings 2:11. But according to Mrs. Eddy, this dec- 
laration should read, ^^ Elijah went up by a wirlwind 
into a divine state of mind." 

^'The Lord was received up into heaven," was 
the declaration of St. Mark. Mark 16:9. 

But according to Mrs. Eddy, St. Mark should 
have said, ' ' The Lord was received up into a divine 
state of mind." 

And in saying this we do no violence to the teach- 
ing of Christian Science. For God is the Supreme 
Mind, and the only mind, and we and Christ alike 
are but reflections or ideas sent forth from the one 
Supreme Mind. 

Sin, suffering, sorrow, and death, with the res- 
urrection and the ascension, insofar as Jesus Christ 
was concerned, were only meaningless phrases, to 
be eliminated by the simplified declaration that the 
'^beautiful idea," Jesus Christ, came forth from the 
Father, God, and passed through a seeming death 
and a seeming resurrection, to become the ascending 
idea, or ascending thought, to be swallowed up again 
in the divine mind. 

And this, if you please, is the sort of a heaven 



66 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

that Christian Science holds out to the world. 

God is a principle, and Grod is all, and we are the 
reflection of that principle, and when the time comes 
for us to ^'pass," and we are set free from an imagi- 
nary body, we are swallowed up like Jesus Christ in 
this ^' alone God," this '^only mind," this '^all of 
good." 



THE RETURN. 

^'Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye 
shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him; and 
all kindred of the earth shall wail because of Him. 
Even so. Amen." Rev. 1:7. 

''For the Lord Himself shall descend from hea- 
ven with a shout, with the voice of the arch-angel, 
and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first ; then we that are alive shall be caught 
up together with them in the clouds to meet the 
Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord." 1 Thess. 4:16-17. 

' ' The second appearance of Jesus is, unquestion- 
ably, the spiritual advent of the advancing idea of 
God in Christian Science." Mrs. Eddy. 

This astounding statement is found on page 
ninety-six of her autobiography, while on page fifty- 
five of Science and Health, published in 1902, she 
says, in speaking of the Holy Spirit, ^^This com- 
forter I understand to be Divine Science." 

Not content with reducing the tragedy of Calvary 
to a joke, and the resurrection to a fake, and the as- 
cension to an ascending thought, and heaven to a 
state of mind. Christian Science swings out to the 
farthest reaches of blasphemy in claiming that *4t" 
is the Holy Ghost and that ^4t" is the second return 
of Jesus Christ. 



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In a later study we shall take up the question of 
the third person of the Trinity, and the Christian 
Science claim concerning Him, and for the present, 
we shall confine our study entirely to Jesus Christ 
and the Christian Science claim concerning Jesus 
Christ. 

If it is true that Christian Science as we know 
it today, even at its best, is Jesus Christ returned to 
'earth, then all must agree that Jesus Christ has un- 
dergone a heart-breaking change since He went 
away. In the long ago when Jesus walked amongst 
men, He never stood before a difficulty that He could 
not surmount, for with a word He opened the blind 
eyes, unstopped the deaf ear, cleansed the leper, 
healed the lame, and raised the dead. 

Today, if Christian Science is Christ returned to 
earth. He has not alone returned as a Christ of limi- 
tations, but a Christ who stands as the most pitiable 
and far-reaching failure; the Christ who cannot 
open the blind eye, and who cannot unstop the deaf 
ear, and who cannot cleanse the leper, and who can- 
not heal the lame, and who cannot raise the dead. 

Not alone is it true that if Christian Science be 
Christ, He has returned to earth a pathetic failure, 
but He has also changed into a manipulator, and a 
money grabber. 

In the long ago. His instantaneous and wonder- 
ful cures were always without money and without 
price, while today His abortive attempts at healing, 
covering weary days and weeks and months of fail- 
ure are always charged for at exorbitant figures. 

Here, as everywhere else, the teachings of Chris- 
tian Science are so unbelievedly absurd and so 
shockingly blasphemous, that to those who are un- 
blinded by this delusion, it is absolutelj^ inconceiva- 



68 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

ble that any sane man or woman could ever be con- 
verted to the Christian Science cult. 

While Christian Scientists resent any such im- 
plications, and it is only natural that they should, 
to spiritual men and women everywhere, the convic- 
tion comes that the secret of the rapid growth of 
Christian Science and the secret of the loyalty of 
Christian Scientists to this movement is traceable 
wholly to the fact that this religion is inspired — in- 
spired not from above, but from underneath. Chris- 
tian Science is the result of human ingenuity, and 
human greed, plus something. 

Christian Science is a supernatural religion, but 
supernatural from beneath. 

^'For there shall arise false christs, and false 
prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; 
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive 
the very elect.'' Matt. 24:24. 

^'He doeth great wonders, so that He maketh 
fire to come down from heaven on the earth, in the 
sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the 
earth, by means of those miracles which he had pow- 
er to do — and He had power to give life unto the 
image of the beast." Rev. 13:13-15. 

According to Christian Science, Jesus Christ is 
a way-shower who becomes a sort of a sign board 
pointing to the way; an incorporeal concept, who de- 
ceived the world in pretending to die, and who de- 
ceived the world in pretending to be dead; who after 
His seeming resurrection, left contradictory testi- 
mony; who became in His ascension an ascending 
thought ; and who has returned to earth as the Christ 
of Science, copyrighted and sold to fools through 
the Christian Science church or machine. 

Christian Science is a religion without a personal 
God. 



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Christian Science is a religion without a personal 
Christ. 

Christian Science is a religion without a personal 
Comforter. 

Christian Science is a religion without an in- 
spired Bible. 

Christian Science is a religion without a resur- 
rection, without an ascension, and without a Lord 
and Savior for whom to look as the coming trium- 
phant King. 

Every fact of the Bible concerning Jesus Christ, 
is either etherealized, or flatly contradicted. 



Rev. James Henry Wi^^ins 



TALK NUMBER SIX 

^'Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and op- 
position of Science so called." I. Timothy 6:20. 

According to the oft repeated assertion of Mrs. 
Mary Baker Gr. Eddy *^ Science and Health with a 
Key to the Scriptures," was the work of her own 
hand, nnaided by human suggestion and uncontam- 
inated by human hypothesis." 

This book, Mrs. Eddy says, was revised as early 
as 1875, and yet in her preface to the 1908 edition 
sh^ says that up to 1907, she had never read the 
book through consecutively in order to elucidate her 
idealism! 

It is a matter of record that in 1885 the Eev. 
James Henry Wiggins, a Unitarian preacher became 
the literary advisor of Mrs. Eddy, and that year ed- 
ited and rewrote her whole book. 

In reporting the facts of this revision Georgine 
Milmine says: ''The faulty spelling and punctua- 
tion could have been corrected readily enough, as 
well as the incorrect historical references and the 
misuse of words ; but the whole work was so involv- 
ed, formless, and contradictory that Mr. Wiggins 
put the manuscript aside and thought no more about 
it until he returned to Boston. When he saw Mrs. 
Eddy he told her he could do nothing by merely cor- 
recting her manuscript; that to improve it he would 
have largely to rewrite it. To his surprise she will- 
ingly consented." 

By taking a copy of Science and Health from 



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any of the first editions of the book up to the time 
that Mr. Wiggins whipped the mess into some sem- 
blance of form, one can readily miderstand some- 
thing of the work he did, for the book after his re- 
writing, for the first time, bore some mark of liter- 
ary excellence, and for the first time there was some 
degree of order in the arrangment of the chapters. 

After four years' intimate association with Mrs. 
Eddy, Mr. Wiggins writes as follows concerning her 
and her book : 

^^ Christian Science, on its theological side, is an 
ignorant revival of one form of ancient agnosticism, 
that Jesus is to be distinguished from the Christ, 
and that His earthly appearance was phantasmal, 
not real and fleshly." 

*^ On its moral side, it involves what must fol- 
low from the doctrine that reality is a dream, and 
if a thing is right in thought, why right it is, and 
that sin is non-existent, because God can behold no 
evil. Not that Christian Science believers generally 
see this, or practice evil, but the virus is within. . '' 

*^As for the High Priestess of it, she is,. . .well 
I could tell you but not write. An awfully (I use 
the word advisedly), smart woman, acute, shrewd, 
but not well read, nor in any way learned. What 
she has as documents, clearly show, she got from P. 
P. Quimby, of Portland, Maine, whom she eulo- 
gized after his death as the great leader and her 
special teacher. She tried to answer the charge of 
the adoption of Quimby 's ideas, and called me in to 
counsel her about it; but her only answer, (in print) 
was that if she said such things twenty years ago, 
she must have been under the influence of animal 
magnetism, which is her devil .... much more could 
I say if you were here.'^ 

The above extracts are taken from a personal 



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letter written by Mr. Wiggins to a college friend, 
and in closing this rather extensive review and crit- 
icism of Mrs. Eddy and her religion, he says, **She 
does not care to have her paragraphs clear, and de- 
lights in so expressing herself that her words may 
have various readings and meanings. Really, that 
is one of the tricks of the trade. Yon know sibyls 
have always been thus oracular, to *^keep the word 
of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope.^' 

Mr. Wiggins certainly expresses the literal truth 
in branding the book as a concoction or combination 
of confusing contradictions. 

From cover to cover, the book is rammed and 
crammed with laughable incongruities. 

On one page *^You see,'^ and on the next page 
**You don't see.'^ 

On one page *'It is,'' and on the next page ^*It 
isn't.'' 

On one page *^It does," and on the next page 
*'It does not." 

On one page **You are," and on the next page 
**You are not." 

It is hocus-pocus, presto! and there it is! 

Then hocus-pocus, presto! and where is it? 

Here are a few choice bits of laughable contra- 
dictions gathered from this vast store house filled 
with second-hand goods, and cheap rubbish: 

*'A thorough perusal of the author's publica- 
tions heals sickness." 

'^A man is incapable of sickness." 

^* Christian Science cries: * Follow me! Escape 
from the bondage of sin and death.' " 

**Man is incapable of sin and death." 

*^The author has healed hopeless disease and 
raised the dying to life and health." 



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^^What is termed disease does not exist." 

''Man is never sick/' 

''A man was made to believe that he occupied 
a bed where a cholera patient died. Immediately 
the symptoms of the disease appeared and the man 
died.'' 

''Man is deathless." 

"Any material evidence of death is false." 

"If it is true that man lives, this fact can never 
change in science to the opposite belief that man 
dies. " 

Thus repeatedly and continuously and unmistak- 
ably Christian Science contradicts itself. 

In several previous studies we have been taking 
up the question "Christian Science, is it Christian?" 

Let us continue this study. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, 
He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not 
speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear that 
shall He speak; and He will show you things to 
come." John 16:13. 

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father shall send in My name, He shall 
teach you all things, and bring all things to your 
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." 
John 14:26. 

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expe- 
dient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, 
the Comforter will not come unto you." John 16:7. 

He shall give you another Comforter, and this 
Comforter I understand to be Divine Science." Mrs. 
Eddy. 

"John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the 



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immaculate Jesus, and John saw in those days the 
spiritual idea as the Messiah who would baptize 
with the Holy Ghost — Divine Science." Mrs. Eddy. 

^*The ego is revealed in the Father, Son and 
Holy Ghost, but the full truth is revealed only in 
Divine Science — the Science of God, and man is the 
Holy Ghost.'' Mrs. Eddy. 

*'A11 manner of sin and blasphemy shall be for- 
given unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." Matt. 12:31. 

*^ There may be those who having learned the 
power of unspoken thought, use it rather to harm 
than to heal, and who are using that power against 
Christian Scientists. THIS GIANT SIN IS THE 
SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST SPOKEN OF 
IN MATTHEWS 12:31-32." Mrs. Eddy. 

Not alone did Mrs. Eddy claim that her Science, 
so-called, was the third person of the Trinity, but 
she further taught that to sneer at a Christian 
Scientist practitioner or teacher, was to sneer at the 
Holy Ghost, and laid one liable to the extent that 
one stood in danger of thus committing the unpar- 
donable sin. 

Since, however, Mrs. Eddy teaches that sin does 
not really exist and death does not really exist and 
no judgment awaits mortals, and the soul of man is 
never lost, but only the sense of sin is lost, one need 
not restrain himself when prompted to laugh at 
these goggle-eyed wood-peckers of the cult woods. 

^'And when Simon saw that through the laying 
on of the apostles ' hands the Holy Ghost was given, 
he offered money, saying, give me this power that 
on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy 
Ghost. But Peter said unto him, ^ ' Thy money perish 
with thee, because thou hast thought THAT THE 



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GIFT OF GOD MAY BE PURCHASED WITH 
MONEY.'' Acts 8:18-19-20. 

Simon of Samaria lived nineteen centuries too 
soon! 

Had he lived today he could have found people 
willing to sell him the Holy Ghost. 

If Christian Science, as Mrs. Eddy claims, is 
the Holy Ghost, and to sneer at Christian Scientists 
is to commit the giant sin called the sin against the 
Holy Ghost, we must believe that God has seen fit 
to make Mrs. Eddy the sole custodian of the third 
person of the God-Head, and backed by the laws 
which man had made, Mrs. Eddy, by Divine ap- 
pointment and lawful processes, has placed this 
Holy Ghost where none can know Him and none can 
know the touch of His healing presence, except as 
Mrs. Eddy portions Him out for a stipulated price! 

Just the thought is so shockingly blasphemous 
that it seems wholly out of the realm of the possible 
that any religious fool anywhere would be so far un- 
jointed mentally that he or she would swallow Quah 
rot! 

But, the questions arise, do men and women 
know that Mrs. Eddy made such claims, and do they 
know that here is found the limits of blasphemy! 

They should know, and ignorance here will not 
excuse them in the judgment. 

At the beginning of her career as a religious 
charlatan, she charged a fee of $100 for twelve les- 
sons in how to use the Holv Ghost, and added to this 
$100 the student was to pay her a royalty of ten per 
cent of his income when he had entered the field. 

Experiencing more or less of difficulty ^ in col- 
lecting this royalty from her absent practitioners, 
she finally dropped the royalty end of her program 



76 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

and raised the fee for the twelve lessons to the ex- 
horbitant sum of $300. 

The latter day Simons came her way in such in- 
creasingly large numbers that she finally cut her 
lessons to seven, leaving the fee at $300. With a class 
of 100 Simple Simons in an hour's lesson, Mrs. Eddy, 
the alleged custodian and retailer of the Holy Ghost, 
would pull down the handsome sum of $4,000. 

St. Peter cried out in indignation, protesting 
when Simon suggested paying a price for the power 
which the Holy Ghost conferred, saying, ^^ Repent 
therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if, 
perhaps, the thought of thine heart may be forgiven 
thee, for I perceive that thou art in the gall of bit- 
terness and the bond of iniquity." Acts 8:22-23. 

Had Simon lived today, he could have paid down 
his $300 fee and received a few lessons in how to 
manipulate the Holy Ghost, with the legal right to 
use Him, and with this paid-f or equipment, he could 
have gone out into the world to practice the so-call- 
ed wonders of this power thus purchased, and for 
the demonstrations and manifestations characteris- 
tic of the cult enterprise, could have collected fees 
that would have made the initial fee of $300 look like 
thirty cents. 

Poor Simon! he lived and died too soon. 



THE JUDGMENT, ETC. 

When the Spirit of truth is come — He shall not 
speak of Himself. John 16:13. 

**And when He is come He will reprove the 
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of the Judg- 
ment.'' John 16:8. 

**The Holy Spirit is Divine Science; the devel- 
opment of eternal life — Impersonal.'' Mrs. Eddy. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 77 

While Christian Science claims to be the Holy 
Spirit there are a hundred good and sufficient rea- 
sons why these claims are false. 

Amongst the hundred and more we will mention 
only two, either of which is conclusive. 

Christian Science is not the Holy Spirit, for Je- 
sus says, ^^When He comes He shall not speak of 
Himself. ' ' 

Christian Science does nothing but talk about it- 
self. 

The Christian Science machine, backed with un- 
limited finances, devotes its time, talents and tin to 
the laudation and exploitation of the Christian Sci- 
ence wares. 

Again, Christian Science cannot be the Holy 
Spirit, for Jesus said, ^^When He is come He will re- 
prove the world of sin.'' 

The Holy Spirit comes to convince the world of 
its need of Christ and to convict the world of the 
heinousness of sin, and to further warn of the judg- 
ment that awaits the impenitent sinner. 

Since the foundation teaching of Christian Sci- 
ence is that sin does not exist and no judgment 
awaits those who die in their sins, it is as plain as 
a pike staff that whatever Christian Science is, or 
is not, it is not the Holy Spirit. 

''He will reprove the world of sin," says Jesus. 

''For all have sinned and come short of the glory 
of God," says St. Paul. 

"If we say we have no sin, — the truth is not in 
us, ' ' says St. John. 

"In realitv there is no evil, because soul is im- 
mortal, soul cannot sin." Mrs. Eddy. 

"Man is incapable of sin." Mrs. Eddy. 

"Sin and the sinner alike are nothingness." Mrs. 
Eddy. 



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''If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just 
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all un- 
righteousness. ' ' I John 1:9. 

Sin is not forgiven.'' Mrs. Eddy. 
Let the wicked forsake his ways and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts and let him return un- 
to the Lord, and and He will have mercy on him; 
and to our Grod, for he will abundantly pardon. ^^ 
Isaiah 55:7. 

''Asking Gt)d to pardon is a vain repetition such 
as the heathen use.'' Mrs. Eddy. 

"And when He is come He will convince of 
Judgment." John 16:8. 

' ' He hath appointed a day in which He will judge 
the world." Acts 17:31. 

It is appointed unto men once to die; but after 
this the judgment." Hebrews 9:27. 

"NO FINAL JUDGMENT AWAITS MOB- 
TALS, for the judgment day of wisdom comes hour- 
ly and continuously." Mrs. Eddy. 

"Perfection is gained only by perfection, they 
who are unrighteous shall be unrighteous still, un- 
til in Divine Science Christ, Truth, removes all ig- 
norance of sin." Mrs. Eddy. 

"Now," cried the apostle, "is the accepted time; 
behold now is the day of salvation," meaning, not 
that now is the time to prepare for a future life, but 
now is the time to experience salvation in spirit and 
in life. Now is the time for the so-called material 
pains and material pleasures to pass away, for both 
are unreal, because impossible to science." Mrs. 
Eddy. 

If the apostle meant what Mrs. Eddy says he 
meant, why didn^t the apostle say what she says? 

If the apostle meant, "now is the time to put 
away material pains and pleasures," why in the 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 79 

name of heaven didn't he say so? 

**If yonr sonl were in my sonPs stead." Job 
16:4. 

^*It is as improper to speak of souls as it is im- 
proper to speak of gods/' Mrs. Eddy. 

**What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole 
world and lose his own sonl?'' Mark 8:36. 

^'It is the sense of sin, not the sinful soul that is 
lost." Mrs. Eddy. 

^^The soul that sinneth it shall die." Ezk. 18:4. 

^^The injunction, ^Believe — and thou shalt be 
saved!' demands self-reliant trustworthiness." Mrs. 
Eddy. 

Now every Bible reader knows that these words 

V 

were uttered by St. Paul to the trembling, convict- 
ed, light-seeking jailer, who had cried, *^What must 
I do to be saved." 

^^ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt 
be saved, ' ' was the ringing challenge, which teaches 
and exhorts just the opposite of ^^self-reliant trust- 
worthiness. ' ' 

How appallingly unfortunate that these holy 
men of God with God's mighty truths burning in 
their hearts and minds, were unable to express with- 
in a thousand miles, the truths that they were seek- 
ing to give expression to. 

How astoundingly fortunate are we, that at last, 
away down in the Twentieth Century a three-times- 
married, no-one-knows-how-many-times divorced, 
money-grabbing, place-seeking, hypocritical and 
blasphemous old woman has come, endowed with 
the marvelous insight into these time tested books, 
and that she is able to at last give the proper inter- 
pretation to these widely quoted and well known 
sayings, telling us that these writers got every 
thing bassackward, and that she, and she alone, can 



80 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

enlighten the world as to what they were trying to 
say. 

^'The Holy Spirit will convict of sin," says Je- 
sus. 

^' There is no sin," says Mrs. Eddy. 

^'The lloly Spirit will lead yon to seek and find 
pardon for your sins, ' ' says Jesus. 

^'Sin is not pardoned," says Mrs. Eddy. 

^^The Holy Spirit will convince of judgment," 
says Jesus. 

^' There is no final judgment," says Mrs. Eddy. 

''If he shall gain the whole world and lose his 
own soul — what would he give in exchange for the 
soul?" Jesus asks. 

' ' The soul is not lost. ' ' Mrs. Eddy announces. 



ANGELS, DEVILS, ETC. 

''Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts 
of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from 
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because 
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he 
speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father 
of it." John 8:44. 

"I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." 
Luke 10:18. 

"Devil! a lie! error! neither corporeality nor 
mind! The opposite of truth." Mrs. Eddy. 

"A lie is all the satan there is." Mrs. Eddy. 

Jesus always uses the personal pronoun in speak- 
ing of the devil and brands him not alone as a liar, 
but as being the father of liars. Mrs. Eddy says the 
devil is not a person, but a lie is all the devil there is. 

"The devil taketh Him up into an exceeding 
high mountain, and showeth Him all the kingdoms 
of the world, and the glory of them, and saith unto 



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Him, all these things will I give thee, if thou wilt 
fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto 
him, get thee hence satan.'' Matt. 4:8-9-10. 

' ' God, Good, being ever present, it follows in di- 
vine logic that evil, the suppositional opposite of 
good, is never present.'' Mrs. Eddy. 

^^ Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the 
:spirits whether they are of God." 1st John 4:1. 

^^God is the only spirit." Mrs. Eddy. 

*'Evil hath no reality, it is neither person, place 
or thing." Mrs. Eddy. 

When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, was 
He tempted from within or from without? 

If from within, there must have been evil in 
Him! 

If from without, there must be a personal devil. 

^^ There met Him two possessed of devils — they 
<5ried out, 'What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou 
Son of Godr — so the devils besought Him saying, 
if thou cast us out." Matt. 8:28-29-30-31. 

Here, it is a matter of divine record that devils 
recognized the Son of God and prayed to Him and 
He answered their prayers. 

Some folk, apart from the Science cult, would 
have us believe that the devils spoken of in Bible 
times were not real living, walking, talking devils, 
but only devils of habit that bound and destroyed. 

To be true, there are men who are possessed with 
a devil of greed! 

To be true, there are men who are possessed with 
a devil of lust! 

To be true, there are men who are possessed with 
a devil of intemperance! 

To be true, there are men who are possessed with 
a devil of infidelity! 

And if the records are to be believed, Mrs. Eddy 



82 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

was evidently possessed with a devil of a bad tem- 
per, and a devil of a long tongue! 

These were not, however, the devils with which 
Jesus dealt! 

These devils of Bible times and of all times, may 
manifest themselves, and do, in greed, lust, gamb- 
ling, lying, drinking and every other mean, dishon- 
est and disreputable tendency, but these are only 
their manifestations. 

With the devil, Mrs. Eddy does just what she 
does with Grod, reduces a person to a thing. 

^^God is love," says Jesus. 

*^Love is God,'' says Mrs. Eddy. 

'^The devil is a liar," says Jesus. 

''The devil is a lie," says Mrs. Eddy. 

Changing from the question of evil spirits to 
heavenly messengers we have the same flat contra- 
diction of the Word of God. 

''Then the devil leaveth Him and angels came 
and ministered to Him." Matt. 4:11. 

*'And the angel said unto them, fear not; for be- 
hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy." Luke 
2: 10. 

"My God hath sent the angel and hath shut the 
lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me." Daniel 
6:22. 

"He saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth 
hour, an angel of God coming in to him, and saying 
unto him, Cornelius." Acts 10:3. 

'-'Angels — are they not all ministering spirits f"^ 
Heb. 1:13-14. 

"Angels are divine ministrations, not messen- 
gers nor persons." Mrs. Eddy. 

"Angels are PURE THOUGHTS from God 
winged with truth and love." Mrs. Eddy. 

The Christian Science bible, revised to meet the 



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-Christian Science conception concerning angels, 
would read after this fashion: 

'^Then the devil, which is a lie, left Him and 
some beautiful thoughts came and ministered unto 
Him." 

^^And the angel, which was a beautiful thought, 
said unto them, fear not; for, behold, I bring you 
good tidings of great joy.'^ 

^^And there appeared a beautiful thought unto 
Him from heaven strengthening Him." 

^ ' God hath sent a beautiful thought and shut the 
lions' mouths and they have not hurt me." 

*^He saw in a vision, evidently about the ninth 
liour, a beautiful thought from God, coming to him, 
^nd saying unto him, Cornelius. ' ' 

^'Angels, are they not all beautiful thoughts?" 

Ad libitum, ad nauseum! 



Is It Scientific? 



TALK NUMBER SEVEN 

^^ Avoid profane and vain babblings and opposi- 
tion of Science, so-called/' I Timothy 6:20. 

^^He that is first in his own cause seemeth jnstj 
but his neighbor cometh and searcheth him. Pro. 
18:17. 

' ' The notion of a material universe is utterly op- 
posed to the theory of men as evolved by mind. ' ^ 
Mrs. Eddy. 

'^Both the material senses and their reports are 
unnatural, impossible and unreal." Mrs. Eddy. 

Material life, with all its sin, sickness and death, 
is an illusion against which Divine Science is en- 
gaged in a war of extermination. ' ' Mrs. Eddy. 

In the opening pages of every book, having to do 
with the science of geometry, there are certain well 
known axioms, such as: 

'^A straignt line is the shortest distance between 
two points.'' 

^^The whole is equal to the sum of its parts.'' 

''If equals are added to equals the sums are 
equal. ' ' 

These well known axioms contain self-evident 
truths, and to ask for a demonstration to substan- 
tiate their truth would be to confess ourselves men- 
tal weaklings, incapable of grasping surface facts. 
The science of geometry is constructed upon these 
self-evident truths, so, too, with all science, into 
whatever realm or sphere one may step. No com- 
bination of theories, however attractive they may 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 85 

look, can by any stretch of the imagination be ac- 
cepted as a science until those theories have been 
tested out on the anvil of human investigation and 
demonstration, and been systematically arranged 
around certain well defined and accepted principles. 

Christian Science announces itself to the world 
as a science, but does this mere announcement vali- 
date the claim? 

Is Christian Science Scientific? 

We speak of the rational faculty, in the exercise 
of which we reach certain inferences from certain 
premises, which eventually combine into certain 
clearly defined axioms — axioms by which our con- 
duct for everyday life is guaged! 

For instance, we know that fire will bum, and 
water will drown, and cold will freeze, and strych- 
nine will kill, and that to exist physically we must 
feed these physical bodies on certain wholesome, 
life-sustaining foods. 

Now these statements are self-evident truths — 
axioms found on every page of the book of human 
experience. 

Over against these and all other axioms of hu- 
man experience. Christian Science enters a flat de- 
nial! Christian Science is not alone teaching its dev- 
otees that fire does not burn, and water does not 
drown, and cold does not freeze, and poison does not 
kill, but these things are illusions — created and giv- 
en power by that havoc-working something called 
^^ Mortal Mind.'' 

^'If a dose of poison is s^^allowed through mis- 
take, and the patient dies, even though patient and 
physician are expecting favorable results, does be- 
lief, you ask, cause this death? Even so, and as di- 
rectly as if the poison had been taken intentionally." 
Mrs. Eddy. 



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^'Only as mortal mind endows the poison does 
it operate." Mrs. Eddy. 

^'The property of alcohol is to intoxicate, but if 
the common thought of the majority endowed it 
with nourishing quality, like milk, it would produce 
the same effects milk produces.'' Mrs. Eddy. 

According to Christian Science then, fire and 
water and alcohol and strychnine have power over 
the bodies of men because a majority of minds have 
combined to vote them that power, but the question 
naturally comes, when and where and how did these 
non-existent substances and fluids get a majority 
vote to start them on their destructive ways? 

*'Food neither strengthens or weakens the body, 
yet until a more perfect day of understanding it 
would be foolish to give up eating." Mrs. Eddy, 

To be sure, and Mrs. Eddy's followers will post- 
pone any and all attempts of living without food, 
until '^that more perfect day." 

Any fool who attempts to exist without feeding the 
much ridiculed body, would end in a religious fool 
being ushered into a more perfect day, or into a day 
that was several degrees less perfect. 

While Christian Scientists tell much about the 
foundation facts of his science, these facts, when ex- 
amined, prove to be nothing more and nothing less 
than the wildest of speculations, and these specula- 
tions the Scientist would not dare to undertake to 
put into daily practice, on penalty of being incar- 
cerated in the bug-house. 

To become a Christian Scientist, a Scientist 
would have to repudiate every foundation fact on 
which the whole world of science is constructed, and 
no Scientist could do that, without first asking his 
reason to abdicate the throne. 

No Scientist ever has been or ever will be a 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 87 

Christian Scientist! Every ship that swings out to 
sea must be provided with chart, compass, and hehn, 
and the captain of that vessel must understand that 
two vessels cannot travel in opposite directions of 
precisely the same course without getting into trou- 
ble, and so, too, with all men and women on the 
ocean of life. 

Whether we be of the world most worldlv, a ma- 
terialist of the materialist's, or of the heavens most 
heavenly, a visionary and an idealist, we must all 
have our chart, compass and helm, and must all, 
whatever our metaphysics, adhere undeviatingly to 
certain well defined laws that govern this earthly 
voyage! 

In ^ ^ prof ession, " the Christian Scientist re- 
nounces all the claims that this material world 
makes upon him, but in ^^ practice," he, as did his 
beloved founder, bows in meekest submission to 
them all. 

This hodge-podge called Christian Science, can 
by no stretch of the imagination be considered 
scientific. 

Christian Science is a dream world constructed 
for a circle of dreamers who love to speculate on 
eternal issues, who love to skim the surface of 
things. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS NATURAL 

SCIENCE. 

**God thundereth marvelously with His voice; 
great things doeth He which we cannot compre- 
hend." Job 37:5. 

^*A11 sensible phenomena are merely subjective 
states of mortal mind. If God is Spirit and God is 



88 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

all, surely there can be no matter." Mrs. Eddy- 
Vertebrates, articulates, mollusks and radiates 
are simply what mind makes them, while repulsion, 
attraction, cohesion and power supposed to belong 
to matter, are constituents of the mind. ' ' Mrs. Eddy. 

^^The so-called destructive forces of matter, and 
the ferocity of man and beast are animal beliefs.'' 
Mrs. Eddy. 

''Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least ma- 
terial form of illusive consciousness." Mrs. Eddy. 

According to Christian Science, the physical 
forces of nature do not exist, in fact, but rather they 
have come to exist in fancy, through the fact that 
Mortal Mind has created them and gather about 
them certain imagined properties and powers. 

Volcanic eruptions, cyclones, avalanches, fires, 
floods, winds, thunder and lightning, are all the fan- 
tastic caperings of that shocking ''cut-up" called 
the Mortal Mind. 

What a frolicsome lad he is! 

Now, if, as Christian Science teaches, "Electric- 
ity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of 
illusive consciousness," we will wager an Arkansas 
goat farm against a plugged three-cent piece that 
no Christian Scientist can handle that "illusive" 
and least "vital" fluid without waking up on the 
back-door-step of the great where-is-it! 

Again, if as Mrs. Eddy taught the "ferocity of 
beasts," is only animal belief, the ostrich certainly 
has the bright idea, for when he sees the ferocious 
lion walking over the landscape, he proceeds to wipe 
the lion from his "belief" pad by sticking his empty 
head in the shifting sands! 

The Bible teaches us that God created the hea- 
vens and the earth, and that by His omnipotence 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 89 

and His omniscience He holds the planets in their 
mazy waltz. 

This earth, we know, is governed by certain fixed 
laws, and by tracing out those laws, we can predict 
with absolute assurance, just when the sun will rise 
one hundred years from today, and at what time the 
moon will full one hundred years from today, and at 
what time the tides will rise and fall one hundred 
years from today. Now if all this phenomena were 
the creation of Mortal Mind, the sun would not rise 
and the tide would not ebb and flow, and the eclipse 
would not come as men predict, for it is certain, that 
a majority of minds have not united to vote an 
eclipse at a stated period of time, nor has a major- 
ity of minds monkeyed with the sun and moon and 
tides, much less have they agreed when to have them 
perform ! 

Seventy-five million stars, or suns, have been 
counted, and some of them, it is estimated, are a 
hundred thousand times larger and a hundred thous- 
and times hotter than our sun. 

If our little earth were to swing as close to old 
Canopus as it swings to our sun, the heat would be 
so great that our earth would instantly vaporize. 

Eight billions of one kind of bacteria can find 
room in a space equal to a pin head, and these eight 
billions of bacteria no more merge into each other 
than eight billion blades of grass merge into each 
other. These are amongst a few of the wonderful 
discoveries of the scientific world. 

Christian Science wipes the slate clear by an- 
nouncing all these supposed findings of science as 
only illusions of a mortal mind, a mortal mind which 
not alone parades before us a world that is unreal, 
but a mortal mind that is itself, non-existent and 
unreal! 



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Science tells us that a certain amount of oxygen 
<3onibined with a certain amount of hydrogen pro- 
duces a liquid something called water. Christian 
Science says the oxygen-idea combined with the hy- 
drogen-idea, produces an illusion called the water- 
idea. 

Mortal mind, says the Scientist, which creates 
this water-idea, also creates the theory that man 
must drink of that water-idea or die, when as a 
matter of fact, the water-idea, the bodily-idea, 
and the thirst-idea, are all unreal and impossible. 

But, nevertheless, <>hristian Scientists drink of 
that idea, and when they fall into it, they drown, un- 
less, they happen to have big ears. In that event the 
wind gets behind the ears, and blows them to land! 

Science tells us that a combustible body ignited 
and heated to redness becomes fire, and that to 
bring ourselves in too close touch with that some- 
thing called fire, is to suffer more or less of incon- 
venience or pain. 

Christian Science tells us that fire, like water, 
is only a condition of mind, and has power only as 
mind delegates it power. 

However, it is a certain shot, that if you were 
to take a bunch of the most devout of Christian 
Scientists and throw them into the firey furnace 
through which the three Hebrew children passed, 
all you would ever get out would be some buttons, 
hair-pins and buckles! 

A little boy was crossing the pasture with his 
Christian Science mother, when a Billy Goat came 
snorting up ready to enter the ^* butter '^ business! 

The little boy began to whimper and hang to his 
mother's clothes. ^^Son,'' said the mother sternly, 
**I am ashamed of you! You are a Christian Sci- 
entist! Don't you know that that Billy Goat can't 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 91 

butt you?'' *'Ye-ye-ye-yes-um/' said the boy, ''bu- 
bubu-but, Mama, II-I, am afraid the Billy Goat 
don't know it!" 

There is the trouble in the complicated system, 
the fool Billy Goat don't know a Scientist sprout 
from any other sort of a sprout, and he butts seven- 
teen kinds of daylight out of the offspring of the 
Scientist just as he unhinges the calm possessions 
of anv other mother's son. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS MENTAL 

SCIENCE. 

''Whatsoever things are true — Think On These 
Things." Phil. 4:8. 

''For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Pro.. 
23:7. 

"Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind 
— the five senses are enemies — the knowledge ob- 
tained from corporeal senses leads to sin and death. ' ^ 
Mrs. Eddy. 

"The belief that pain and pleasure, life and 
death, holiness and unholiness mingle in man is fa- 
tal error— the less mind there is manifested in mat- 
ter the better." Mrs. Eddy. 

Some of the most tremendous forces with which 
men have to do are the forces that are invisible and 
imponderable! Namely: electricity, chemical affin- 
ity, atmospheric pressure and gravitation. 

Of these silent, mighty forces we know practi- 
cally nothing. 

We have seen the hand of electricity as flashing 
out through the storm cloud, it shattered trees or 
buildings, and we know that that force, harnessed 
and controlled, moves our cars, lights our homes 



92 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

and turns the wheel of our mill, but how it comes, 
and how it goes, and how it flows along the wire, we 
know not. 

We have come to know that through the attrac- 
tion of gravitation the planets are held in their or- 
bits, and with more than clock-like precision they 
swing to the music of nature's orchestra, but the 
whence and the how of the attraction of gravitation 
we don't know! So with most of the unseen forces 
that operate around us and over us. 

Back of electricity and back of chemical aflSnity 
and back of atmospheric pressure and back of grav- 
itation there stands a power, likewise unseen, in- 
tangible, and imponderable, a power that is more 
mighty than all of these, and the unseen, indefinable 
force or power, is called THOUGHT. That which 
controls is certainly greater than that which is con- 
trolled, and while we know practically nothing about 
the mysteries and the powers of these silent forces 
called electricity, chemical affinity, atmospheric 
pressure and gravitation, the thoughts of man have 
harnessed them, and they are made to do the bid- 
ding of man. 

Like electricity and like gravitation, we know 
not where thought has its home, how it operates, 
whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, but by our 
thinking we master worlds, and by our thinking we 
decide the destinies of the race! 

St. Paul exhorts the Philippian converts to think 
the truth, honesty, justice, purity, loveliness and 
things of good report, because he knew that by our 
thinking we become our own architects and by our 
thinking we become our own builders, and by our 
thinking we land in heaven or hell. 

Now, Christian Science does what many another 
cult movement does, it takes one great truth of the 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 93* 

Bible, THE POWER OF MIND OVER MATTER 
— Mental Science, and gathering about this one 
mighty truth a world of theory, fancy and fraud, 
announces itself to the world as a special revelation, 
containing the only way of life, and with a founder 
that is the very oracle of God — infallible and Divine. 

St. Paul says to think the truth is to live the 
truth, therefore think the truth. 

Certainly in the realm of morals as we think we 
are! 

Christian Science says, **Mind is all, matter is 
non-existent, and as you think you are, mentally, 
morally, physically and spiritually." 

Christian Science not only negates sin, sickness 
and death, but it negates man — leaving him less 
than a selfless shadow! 

* * There is but one Spirit, because there is but one 
Infinite.'* Mrs. Eddy. 

**Man is the idea of God — he is above mortal 
frailty. '* Mrs. Eddy. 

**Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, 
but ever beautiful and complete." Mrs. Eddy. 

''There is but one primal cause, therefore there 
can be no effect from any other cause. ' ' Mrs. Eddy. 

' ' God could never impart an element of evil, and 
man possesses nothing which he has not received 
from God." Mrs. Eddy. 

Here again Christian Scientists profess one thing 
but practice another, for they teach that the mind 
is all, and the body with its sensations are only illu- 
sions, yet when they see an illusory railroad locomo- 
tive coming down an illusory railroad track, and 
they chance to be standing on that illusory track, 
they make haste to get that illusory body off of that 
illusory railroad, and they do this, because they 
know if they do not, that illusory train will smear up 



94 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

the adjacent landscape with arms, legs and things. 

Oleson was telling the story of the death of his 
friend, who, when a train passed, came back on the 
track to meet his friend, who had stepped down the 
embankment, as he thought, on the other side. 

Oleson looked everywhere and his friend was 
gone. He started down the track and came across a 
leg of his friend, and further on he found an arm^ 
and later here was his head, and Oleson stopped, 
threw up his hands and cried, ^^G-reat guns, some- 
thing must have happened to Peterson.'' 

Evidently, and whether Peterson was a Chris- 
tian Scientist, or just an ordinary mortal, the results 
of such a collision usually result fatally. 

We understand that certain of the Science Cult 
are making effort to pare down and compromise the 
hard negations of their beloved leader, and they 
would have us understand that Mrs. Eddy meant to 
teach that placed over against the eternal verities 
the temporal, or the material, was transitory, or 
non-existent, but in seeking to thus interpret Mrs* 
Eddy they are overlooking the fact that they claim 
for her plenary authority, and that she herself 
claimed to speak as the very oracle of God. 

^^AU material life is self-evident falsehood. 
There is no material law that creates or governs 
man, or that man should obey; obedience to the 
spiritual law is all that God requires, and this law 
abrogates matter." Mrs. Eddy. 

^^How are we to escape from flesh, or mortality? 
By understanding that we never were flesh, that we 
are spirit and not matter. ' ' Mrs. Eddy. 

Christian Science has had its home in India for 
thousands of years, but there it is known as an acos- 
mistic or world-denying pantheism! 



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SENSE. 

'* Every man is tempted when he is drawn away 
of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath 
conceived it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is 
finished, bringeth forth death.'' James 1:14-15. 

^^Some time it will be learned that mind con- 
structs the body, and with its own materials. Hence 
no breakage or dislocation can really occur. Mater- 
ial life, with all its. sin, sickness and death is an illu- 
sion! Every sort of sickness is a degree of insanity; 
that is, sickness is always hullucination." Mrs. 
Eddy. 

Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling are 
the channels through which we become intelligently 
related to the great world of material reality in 
which we live. 

Apart from these five senses, for this life at 
least, man would be worse than a pauper, and of all 
pitiable things, the most pitiable. 

In the opening pages of the book of every man's 
life there are written down in indelible inks the 
axioms that have been constructed through years of 
experience — axioms that could never have been 
built, except through the multiplied sensations that 
have come through the five channels, hearing, see- 
ing, tasting, smelling and feeling! 

Christian Science not alone repudiates any and 
all conclusions reached by multiplied millions, 
through the five senses, but Christian Science 
teaches that these five senses are our mortal enemies 
and are to be feared, as we fear the disasters to 
which their false testimony leads. Here again, it is 
a repudiation with no evidence to substantiate! 

To be true, Mrs. Eddy suggests that there was 
a time when men concluded that the world was flat. 



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and this conclusion was reached through the testi- 
mony of the senses, she says: 

'^If man's ipse dixit as to the stellar system is 
correct, this is because science is true, and the evi- 
dence of the senses false." 

But here Mrs. Eddy shows her unfortunate fac- 
ulty of skimming over the surface of things, just as 
she skims the surface everywhere else where more 
than surface investigation is required. 

If man's ipse dixit as to the stellar system is cor- 
rect, how was that positive opinion formed if not 
through the further investigation, or use of the 
senses? 

Apart from the testimony that the five senses 
gave, man could have never known that the world 
was round, and that it swung through space? 

Here again you run into the entanglements of 
Christian Science contradiction — the hopeless an- 
tagonisms of its so-called philosophy! 

The earth, after all, is neither flat nor round, for 
the earth does not exist. 

God is mind, and the only mind, and that mind 
fills all space, and there is no place for anything but 
this God-mind, and to this God-mind there is no sin, 
sickness or death, and no material world or material 
body! 

As an explanation of what seems real to the hu- 
man family, Mrs. Eddy says there is a ''Mortal 
Mind,'' and this mortal mind creates all these illu- 
sions. 

Now, Mrs. Eddy says, God, the Immortal Mind 
has no knowledge of this ''Mortal Mind" and its 
attendant evils, and yet she says God inspired her 
to teach the "Mortal Mind" theory as an explana- 
tion of evil! 

"Mortal Mind" did not create sin, but sin ere- 



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ated the '^Mortal Mind," and repeatedly and un- 
conditionally, we are assured by Christian Science 
that sin is nothingness. 

Sin, which is nothingness, created the ^* Mortal 
Mind" which is nothingness, and the Mortal Mind 
creates in turn, sin, sickness and death — which like- 
wise are nothingness. 

Man is living in a starless night of awful illu- 
sions, and the question comes, how was this night 
created, or when and how was this kingdom of 
error built? 

It could not come from God, for Grod knows noth- 
ing of darkness, sin, sickness and death, and did he 
know. He could not have created anything so unlike 
Himself. 

It could not come from man, for man is the re- 
flection of God and incapable of sin. 

It could not come from man 's falling away from 
God, for according to the Christian Science guide 
book, man is, and has been, and will ever be, eternal- 
ly perfect, and even if he were not perfect, Christian 
Science teaches that God is sole cause and sole cre- 
ator, and this bars man out as an agency for the cre- 
ation of error. 

Christian Science tries to prove that the ^^ Mor- 
tal Mind" is the cause of the world's sorrow, and 
then, proves, or tries to prove, that ^^ Mortal Mind" 
does not exist. 

Christian Science teaches that it has power to 
cure all diseases, and raise men and women from the 
jaws of death, and then undertakes to prove that 
sin, sickness and death are a form of insanity, or an 
illusion of this Mortal Mind that has no existence. 

Christian Science is mental hallucination, in 
which one must not alone renounce his five senses, 
but give an indefinite furlough to his common senses. 



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The less mind you use in matter the better it will 
be for your constitution, according to Christian 
Science. 

As an argument to prove that we have too much 
sense, Mrs. Eddy says, ''When an unthinking lob- 
ster loses his claw, it grows again. If the science of 
life were understood, it would be found that the 
senses of mind (immortal mind), are never lost, and 
that matter has no sensations. Then the human 
limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster ^s 
claw — not with an artificial limb, but with a genu- 
ine one. ' ' In other words the lobster grows a leg be- 
cause he has no mind, and if we had no mind like the 
lobster we too could grow a leg to replace the one 
lost, but who in Sam Hill would want to be a lobster? 

Here again the argument does not hold shucks, 
much less water, for certainly there is no animal 
that walks or crawls or breathes or bawls that has 
less sense than a sheep, and yet when you cut off 
his little anecdote (anecdote is a little tail) this lit- 
tle appendage does not sprout and grow again. 

Not alone does the argument break down, but 
here again Christian Science crosses wires and con- 
tradicts itself, for after wading through page after 
page of cheap ridicule and cheaper argument to 
prove the absolute nothingness of matter, we are 
here naively told that if we had less mind, we could 
grow a leg, not an ARTIFICIAL LEG, but a GEN- 
UINE ONE! 

And, so-called intelligent men and women have 
the effrontery to call this hodge-podge a science! 

Scientific is it? 

Well, hardly. 



Does It Heal? 



TALK NUMBER EIGHT. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, lie that believeth 
on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and 
greater works than these shall he do; because I go 
unto My Father." John 14:12. 

* ^ Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel 
to every creature, he that believeth and is baptized 
shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be 
damned. And these signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve; in My name shall they cast out devils; they 
shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up 
serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall 
not hurt them; and they shall lay hands on the sick 
and they shall recover." Mark 16:15-16-17-18. 

Upon these two passages of scripture the Chris- 
tian Scientist undertakes to builH his structure. 

Christian Science, so the Christian Scientist 
teaches, is the literal fulfillment of these two prom- 
ises. 

^'Greater works than these shall ye do — go ye 
into all the world — ^these signs shall follow them 
that believe. ' ' 

It is possible, probably, for some religionists to 
claim too much! 

Jesus Christ opened the blind eye, and unstop- 
ped the deaf ear and healed the lame and cleansed 
the leper and cast out devils and raised the dead, 
and always with a word, followed by instantaneous 
results! 



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Certainly Jesus could not have had reference to 
physical healing when he made the promise, ' * great- 
er works than these shall ye do/' for there are no 
greater works in physical healing, than those Jesus 
wrought. 

Then, too, if Jesus Christ here had reference to 
the healing of the body it is as plain as a pike staff 
that Christian Science is not the fulfillment of that 
promise. 

An old darkey preacher got his theology mixed 
and delivered himself of the following reminder: 
'^Bredern, Jesus Christ op'nd de deeaf eye, and un- 
stop de blin' ye'r, and cleanse de lame and heal de 
leper and cas' out de deead an raise de debel.'^ 

Christian Science can ''cast out the dead,^^ and 
''raise the devil,'' but when it comes to the deaf eye 
and the blind ear, it stands an impotent, impious, 
impudent, imposter! 

Again, while Christian Science claims to be the 
fulfillment of the commission and the promise of 
Christ, in that it is going forth with these "signs 
following," through the healing of the sick, it is 
very careful to refer to the healing of the ^ick and 
to the healing of the sick only. 

If Christian Science were the literal fulfillment 
of these promises then Christian Science would cast 
out devils, talk in new tongues, drink deadly poison, 
handle poisonous serpents, as well as heal the sick, 
and if Christian Science were true, in the least of its 
claims, the handling of deadly serpents, drinking 
death dealing poison, and talking in new tongues 
would be just as natural and a whole lot more com- 
mon than the healing of the body, about which they 
talk so much ! 

Why not claim it all? 

To what did Jesus Christ refer when He gave 



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the assurance, /^Greater works than these shall ye 
do; because I go unto My Father," and has that 
promise ever had a literal fulfillment? 

Certain facts need to be clearly understood and 
then these questions are easily answered. 

To those who seek to know all the truth concern- 
ing the mission of Jesus to earth, nothing is plainer 
than that whatever Jesus did or did not come into 
the world for, it was not primarily for the healing qf 
the body. 

^^The Son of Man is come to seek and to save 
that which is lost," is the declaration of our Lord 
recorded in Luke 19:10. 

While Jesus Christ healed men of their physical 
infirmities, the healing of the body was made one of 
the many avenues of approach to the soul. 

Eepeatedly and most specifically, our Lord 
taught that the body was a minor affair after all, 
and that it was not the body that needed attention, 
but that which dwelt in the body. 

*^And I say unto you, my friends, be not afraid 
of them that kill the body, and after that have no 
more that they can do. But I will forewarn whom 
ye shall fear; fear Him, which after He hath killed 
hath power to cast into hell." Luke 12:4-5. 

''And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off ; it is bet- 
ter for thee to enter into life maimed, than ha\dng 
two hands to go into hell." Mark 9:43. 

''For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a 
man give in exchange for his soul?" Matt. 16:26. 

Jesus evidently sought to teach the church, and 
the world, that one soul was of greater importance 
to the Divine scheme of the ages than a whole world 
of so-called physical cures. 

"Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedi- 



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ent for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the 
Comforter will not come unto you.'' John 16:7. 

'^And when He is come, He will reprove the 
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judg- 
ment.'' John 16:8. 

. ^^And being assembled together with them, com- 
manded them that they should not depart from Jer- 
usalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, 
which, saith He, ye have heard of Me." Acts 1:4. 

In obedience to the command of Christ, these 
men and women gathered in the upper chamber, and 
after ten days of waiting the dispensation of the 
Holy Spirit was ushered in. 

If ever a man was guided unerringly by the 
Spirit of God, it must have been St. Peter, who now 
stands to deliver the first message of this wonder- 
ful dispensation — this dispensation in which billions 
were to live and die. 

This is the day toward which Jesus had pointed 
His disciples through the few short years of His 
earthly ministry, and this was the fulfillment of the 
promised 2rift — the Holy Ghost. 

Now, then, what did St. Peter preach? 

The nothincrness of matter and the impossibility 
of physical pa;in? 

Did he preach the Holj^ Spirit, s'iven of God, for 
the curing of warts and bunions and in-growing toe 
nails? 

As a matter of fact, he does not refer to the heal- 
ing of the body at all, but preaches with soul afire, 
the one supreme fact of our religion, JESUS 
CHRIST WHO SAVES FROM SIN! 

'^Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in 
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins," 
and under the convincing, convicting, converting, 
power of the Holy Ghost, they ''were pricked in 



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their hearts,'' and cried out, ''Men and brethren 
what must we do," and three thousand were swept 
into the kingdom of God. 

''Greater works than these shall ye do," was the 
promise of Jesus, and here, in the first service, after 
the Holy Ghost came, the followers of Christ had 
more conversions than Jesus had had in the three 
and a half years of His ministry, and here this prom- 
ise of Christ had a literal fulfillment. 

Christian Science, with its farcial failures in so- 
called physical cures, has the brazen audacity to 
claim to be the literal fulfillment of this promise of 
Jesus! 



PHYSICAL SUFFERING. 

"Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ 
to suffer." Luke 24:46. 

"For hereunto were ye called; because Christ 
also suffered for us leaving us an example, that we 
should follow in His steps." Peter 2:21. 

"If so be that we suffer with Him, that we may 
be glorified together. For I reckon that the suffer- 
ings of this present time are not worthy to be com- 
pared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." 
Rom. 8:17-18. 

Physical suffering is the common lot of our com- 
mon humanity! 

These bodies of ours, whatever our philosophy 
concerning life, carry with them more or less of dis- 
cord and pain, and to seek to escape the limitations 
and infirmities which these material bodies bring, 
by denying their material existence, is as impossi- 
ble as the attempt to run from our shadow. 

To deny the facts of the body does not get us a 
divorce from the body, and whatever our peculiar 



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belief, no train can run fast enough and no boat can 
sail far enough, to carry us away from physical suf- 
fering and physical death! 

Thousands of men and women are seeking for 
the panacea — for the catholicon, that will forever 
banish every ill to which the human flesh is heir, 
and from amongst these, again and again, the cry 
has gone up, * 'Eureka! Eureka!" but when the 
honest investigator has come along with the ''acid 
test," the so-called discovery panned out to be the 
revarnished pieces of some old discarded philoso- 
phy, buried ages ago. 

Christian Science can very properly be located 
in this catagory. 

What is true in Christian Science is so old it has 
whiskers rolled up on a windlass, and what is new 
is not true. 

Mental therapeutics, uncJer one head or another,, 
has been practiced in the world for ages, and this 
phase of Christian Science is as old as the hills, but 
Christian Science, as a so-called Spiritual Science, 
with the nothingness of matter and the impossibility 
of pain, with a Christ "Idea" and a "Principle" 
God, is a conglomerate concoction of ancient and 
modern fancy and falsehood. 

Christian Science does not offer better methods 
for the handling of these bodily ills, nor greater 
strength to bear them, but rather it offers deliver- 
ance from pain, through mental oblivion. 

It offers peace by taking mind opiates, and mind 
opiates, if over-done, will have a bad re-action. 

Under the magic spell of this new religion, mul- 
titudes have claimed the most wonderful of cures, 
and have professed to receive herculean strength of 
body as well as spiritual life, but immunity from 
physical ills they found had not been given, and de- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 105 

spite their claims to the contrary, disease laid its 
clammy hand upon them and the silent reaper put in 
his hook, and they were gone! 

Human suffering is real — as real as life! 

Christ suffered, and St. Paul suffered and St. 
Peter suffered, and down through all the ages, the 
purest and the best men and women that this world 
has ever known, have often been those who knew 
most of the pangs and the pains that come in the 
fiery furnace of physical infirmity. 

King David announces to the world his thank- 
fulness in being refined by the fires of afiiiction, 
while the righteous Job, while lying upon the earth, 
covered with sores, cries, '^I have heard of Thee by 
the hearing of the ear, but now I see Thee face to 
face." 

Face to face Job saw God, but that vision came 
while passing through great physical suffering. 

Multitudes whose lives float out to the world like 
sweet rosaries, would have never had the vision had 
it not come while lying on beds of pain. 

There is a ministry of affliction just as there is a 
ministry of the Holy Spirit. 

^^ Would God I had never been made,'' cried a 
suffering Christian, and a brojther Christian sitting 
by who had been through the fires and refined in the 
process, said, ^ ^Friend, that is just it. You are not 
made — God is making you, and you are rebelling at 
the process." 

The alabaster box contained precious ointment, 
but the ointment could not be used until the box was 
broken, and then when the box was broken, the oint- 
ment filled all the house with its sweet perfumes. 

Some times the body is the box that God must 
take and God must break! 

Some sing best after the heart is broken. 



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Some people live best after the family circle is 
broken. 

Some people pray best and preach best and serve 
best after having been passed through the refining 
fires of disappointment, adversity, treachery and 
physical pain. 

St. Paul had power to heal and yet he bore 
through life his ^^ thorn in the flesh." 

Doubtless an affliction of the eyes — nearly blind, 
and St. Paul prayed earnestly, once, twice, thrice, 
that this thorn might be removed, and God as much 
as said, ' ' St. Paul, I know you. It is better that you 
keep the thorn and that I give you grace to bear it, 
than that you be without the thorn and without the 
grace." 

St. Paul carried this infirmity through all the 
years, as a '^ thorn" that humbled and humiliated, 
and yet as an agency of correction and power, and 
the time finally came when looking upon this infir- 
mity he could say, ^^Most gladly therefore, will I 
rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of 
Christ may rest upon me." 

If I believed, as Christian Scientists do, that Mrs. 
Eddy was the feminine representation of God, bring- 
ing a more perfect revelation of the Father than 
Jesus brought, who brought the masculine idea, or 
ideal, and that Mrs. Eddy deserves rank and place 
alongside Jesus of Nazareth, (and most assuredly I 
don't believe such rot), I would have to ponder a 
world of facts pointing to the contrary, not to be- 
lieve that Mrs. Eddy got this so-called vision while 
in the furnace of physical pain. 

According to her own testimony no saint or near 
saint, or far saint, ever suffered more than this al- 
leged feminine representation of God! 

She was married three times, and heaven knows 



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that was enough to fit her for the martyr's crown or 
the bug house! 

These several husbands of this much married 
woman, also suffered, don't forget that. 

Their daily occupation, it seems, was that of 
swinging and rocking this nervous, excitable, irri- 
table, explosive piece of human clay, that, according 
to the Eddyite, was destined under God, to eventu- 
ally occupy as exalted a place in the affections of 
men and the affairs of the world as Jesus Christ. 

A twice married woman was tongue-lashing her 
second venture and wound up with '^Oh, why did 
God take my first husband and send you to me?'' 
and the subdued husband said, ' ' possibly it was be- 
cause God was sorry for your first husband and had 
it in for me." 

Mentally and physically, Mrs. Eddy suffered all 
her days, and finally passed the way of all the 
earth, having to succumb to the ravages of disease 
and death, just as other men and women have had 
to surrender to their last enemies and go their way. 



PHYSICAL HEALING. 

'^And they shall lay hands on the sick and they 
shall recover." Mark 16:18. 

'^Is any sick among you? let him call for the 
elders of the church; and let them pray over him, 
anointing him in the name of the Lord; and the 
prayer of faith shall save the sick." James 5:14-15. 

' ' That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by 
Esaias the prophet, saying, himself took our infir- 
mities, and bare our sickness." Matt. 8:17. 

Undoubtedly the Word of God most specifically 
teaches us that the healing of the body comes with- 
in the realm of prayer, and that the Christian is to 



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pray about the body as well as the soul. 

However, he is not to pray, * * Cleanse us from all 
our iniquities'' and *^heal us of all our diseases,'' 
getting the idea that these two widely separated 
goals are to be realized in the same hour and in the 
same work. . 

Here is where multitudes become confused and 
confounded. 

Sickness was included in the atonement as sin 
was included in the. atonement, but not in the same 
sense, or on the same conditions. 

Sin is a God-smitten monster that wrecked Eden 
and slew Christ, and sin must be put away — the last 
and the least remains of sin. 

Sickness is the common lot of man, and while it 
is God's will sometimes to heal, it is often God's will 
to teach through affliction, and in instances such as 
this affliction must work out its ministry in the life, 
and however earnest the prayers offered for healing, 
the miracle of healing will not be realized. 

Men and women who teach that sickness was in- 
cluded in the atonement in the same sense that sin 
was included in the atonement, must necessarily 
teach that sickness is not alone an evidence of lack 
of faith, but more, it is evidence of unsurrendered 
sin. 

Some go even further than this, and teach that 
all sickness is of the devil, and whoever suffers, suf- 
fers because the devil is in them. If this were true, 
then Jesus and St. Paul and St. Peter were devil 
possessed. 

Does God sometimes raise from the bed of pain, 
and the jaws of death those for whom prayer is of- 
fered, and do men and women possess the gift of 
healing today as in the first days of the Christian 
church? 



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God, evidently, has seen fit to bestow healing 
faith in ever diminishing quantities, until today, it 
seems, very few are called to deal specifically and 
wholly with the ills to which the body falls heir. 

That men and women are raised today, in certain 
isolated cases, is my firm conviction, but when God 
works the miracle of healing it is in answer to the 
prayer of faith, offered by those who believe in the 
atoning merits of the blood of Jesus Christ, and the 
cure is instantaneous and complete. 

Do men and women dishonor God in calling a 
physician to their bedside when suffering, and do 
they dishonor God by using the materials that the 
medical world has pronounced beneficial in hand- 
ling certain diseases? 

Most emphatically, I would answer in the nega- 
tive! 

Mrs. Eddy says, ''When there were fewer doc- 
tors and less thought was given to sanitary sub- 
jects, there were better constitutions and less dis- 
ease." 

This declaration is only in keeping with a hun- 
dred other declarations that were based on ig- 
norance or deception. 

The ravages of cholera, small pox, yellow fever 
and a score of other appallingly destructive plagues, 
that have threatened at times the whole race, have 
by scientific research, sanitation and medical treat- 
ment, been all but completely eradicated. 

St. Paul carried with him ' ' St. Luke, the beloved 
physician. ' ' 

Jesus Christ speaks of the ''Good Samaritan,'' 
who, going down to Jericho, found the wounded 
traveler lying on the ground, bruised and bleeding, 
having been left for dead by a band of thieves. 

Jesus represents the Good Samaritan as binding 



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up the wound^ of the bleeding, suffering man, pour- 
ing in soothing oil, and ends the story with the 
wounded man safely located in an inn, with assur- 
ance that whatever the expense, the Good Samari-^ 
tan will gladly pay. / 

Medical practice in the days of Christ must have 
been crude enough, but whatever else Christ did or 
did not do. He did not repudiate and ridicule the 
profession. 

Mrs. Eddy teaches her practitioners, through 
the undeviating methods of Christian Science 
treatment, that it is the surest signs of vicious mal- 
practice when the healer even so much as rubs the 
head and lays hands on the sick. 

'^And they shall lay hands on the sick,'' says 
Christ, ''and they shall recover." 

''Is any sick amongst you?" asks St. Jame$, 
^'let him call the elders — let them pray over him — 
anointing him — and the prayer of faith shall heal 
the sick." 

The "Good Samaritan" bound up the wounds 
of the traveler, pouring in oil, — evidently using the 
best means then available, and the Good Samaritan 
was held up by our Lord as the ideal helper and the 
friend of all. 

If Jesus Christ had been a Christian Scientist, 
and Christian Scientists blasphemously call Him the 
first " scientist "^ — the head of their breed, Jesus 
Christ would have represented the "Good Samari- 
tan" as giving the wounded traveler a dose of mind 
cure, seeking to convince him that the thieves had 
not hit him on the head, and further, that as a mat- 
ter of absolute fact, he had no head to be hit! 

"My dolly is sick," said a little girl to her un- 
cle, "and I have tried to give her water and she 
can't swallow that, and I tried to give her a pill and 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 111 

slie couldn't swallow that, and now I don't know 
what to do." 

^'Why don't you give her Christian Science?" 
inquired the uncle. 

^^Oh, I tried that too," the little girl said, ^^but 
my dolly couldn't swallow that." 



ALL THAT A MAN HATH. 

'^And satan answered the Lord, and said, skin 
for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for 
his life. But put forth thy hand now, and touch his 
bone and flesh, and he will cuise Thee to Thv face." 
Job 2:4-5. 

Physical healing always carries with it an ele- 
ment of danger! 

The devil knows the weaknesses of the human 
race, and he knows that no offer looks quite so at- 
tractive to the average man or woman as that which 
promises long life, and freedom from physical pain. 

Whatever the cult, and whatever its attitude to- 
ward the blood of Christ, if that cult offers healing 
for the body, and backs up these offers with appar- 
ent cures, multitudes of church members are going 
to stand in awe, and are going to pronounce the 
movement as having the seal of God upon it. 

Down through all the centuries, literally scores 
of movements, professing to work repeated miracles 
in the matter of healing, have run their course, 
drawing people, often, in droves from the churches, 
and leaving the sad wrecks of an unfulfilled dream 
for the church to gather up and minister to as best 
the church can do. 

Christian Science performs none of the miracles 
in the matter of physical cures that these other 
proven fakes have not performed, but even if 



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Christian Science began opening the blind eye, and 
unstopping the deaf ear, and cleansing the leper, it 
would be no sure evidence that God was working 
through Christian Science, for God has never work- 
ed through any religious movement, and never will, 
that cheapens the sacrifice of Calvary, and that 
makes the blood of Christ a useless thing. 

^^So satan went forth from the presence of the 
Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole 
of his foot unto his crown.'' Job 2:7. 

Jesus Christ evidently meant men and women to 
understand that' certain diseases were the direct re- 
sult of people being devil possessed, and he healed 
these men and women by casting the devil out of 
them. 

Now, it stands to reason that if the devil can af- 
flict the bodies of men, the devil has power to heal 
the bodies of men. 

If the devil can possess a man and make him a 
raving maniac, he can certainly loose that man from 
the chains that bind him, and send him back to his 
home clothed and in his right mind. 

We have never sought to explain the mystery of 
these so-called cures of the cult world on that 
ground, but Jesus Christ warns us, as did His in- 
spired followers, that the devil will come as an an- 
gel of light, performing wonderful miracles, and 
seeking, if possible, to deceive the very elect. 

I do not question the power of the devil to per- 
form certain miracles of healing, and personally I 
believe that again and again the devil has led thous- 
ands into movements where Christ was insulted and 
His blood cheapened, through performing certain 
so-called miracles of physical healing. 

**Yea, all that a man hath will he give for his 
life,'' and this challenge flung into the face of God, 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 113 

was accepted, and Job was placed in the test, and 
Job rang true, but you place the average church 
member under the same test today and you will 
find that they have a ''yellow" streak in them — and 
more, they will throw overboard their Christ and 
thfeir church and the faith of their fathers, and ac- 
cept a religion that does more than curse God to 
His face. 

Christian Science is guilty of blacker sins than 
that of cursing God to His face. Christian Science 
makes the blood of Christ an unholy, or an unneces- 
sary thing. 

''Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, 
shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under 
foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the 
covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy 
thing?" Heb. 10:29. 

Mrs. Eddy said that nine-tenths of her followers 
came into Christian Science seeking healing, and 
this to her was the crowning victory of her religion. 

*' Touch his bone and his flesh," was the deviPs 
challenge," and he will curse Thee to Thy face." 

The fact that the thousands of followers of Mrs. 
Eddy left their churches and united under her ban- 
ner, seeking physical healing, is one of the surest 
signs of the weakness of the movement. 

A certain woman who had heard me through 
several meetings, and who at last had gone off into 
Christian Science, came to have an interview with 
me. 

She said, "Brother Brown, I went into this move- 
ment through my daughter's recovery under a Chris- 
tian Science practitioner. I have studied hard, and 
tried to reach some definite conclusion as to just what 
Christian Science did teach, but try as I will, I can- 
not get a clear grasp as to what its teachings are 



114 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

concerning the more sacred doctrines of the Bible. 
And yet, Christian Science has helped me physi- 
cally." 

Thousands are in the same condition of this wo- 
man, who, I may say, was led to renounce the cult 
and come back to the church, they have backed into 
the hodge-podge of its meaningless phrases, and be- 
wildered and confused as to what the cult does hold 
as its fundamental doctrines, they stay there, look 
wise, and for the sake of a ^^gnat" of healing they 
swallow the '^ camel" of blasphemy and falsehood 
that the cult contains. 

Dr. John Alexander Dowie performed all the 
wonderful cures that Christian Science performs, 
and multitudes followed him— some of the wisest 
and best of our churches, and amongst the saddest 
wrecks of the religious world today are men and wo- 
men who blindly followed this so-called Elijah the 
second, pouring their all into his treasury! 

Dr. Weltmer, of Nevada, Missouri, performed all 
the wonderful cures that Christian Science per- 
forms, and had people coming to him, and sending 
for his absent treatments, all but around the world. 

At a trial held in Butler, Missouri, it was proven 
on the witness stand that while men and women 
were getting these instantaneous recoveries, through 
healing rays being flashed through space, that twen- 
ty stenographers were handling the business and the 
man who was supposed to send these healing rays 
was in the mountains of Colorado trying to regain 
his health! 

The story is an old, old one, and has been work- 
ed down through all ages of the world's history. 

Certain patent medicines that are known to con- 
tain injurious properties, are sold into the homes of 
the unsophisticated and the credulous and daily the 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 115 

most wonderful testimonials concerning miracles of 
physical healings are being written and spread 
broadcast by people who sincerely believe that they 
were snatched from the jaws of death by some pat- 
ent medicine fake, or fraud. 

When Grod heals it is always in the name of 
Christ, and through the efficacy of His cleansing 
blood. 

When the devil heals, it is always in the name 
of the healer or the cult, and by some power which 
that someone wields. 

'^Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this, or 
why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our 
power or holiness we had made this man walk?" 
Acts 3:12. 

^'A thorough perusal of the author's publica- 
tions heals sickness." Mrs. Eddy. 

^*The author has healed hopeless diseases and 
raised the dying to life and health." Mrs. Eddy. 

Does Christian Science heal? 

In our next talk we will answer this question. 



Does It Heal? 



TALK NUMBER NINE 

*^You can prevent or cnre scrofula, hereditary 
diseases, etc., in just the ratio you expel from the 
mind a belief in the transmision of disease, and 
destroy its mental images." 

^ ' Tumors, ulcers, tubercles, inflamation, pain,, 
deformed joints, are all dream shadows, dark im- 
ages of mortal thought which will flee before the 
light." 

^^Have no fear that matter can ache, swell and 
be inflamed, your body would suffer no more from 
tension or wounds than would the trunk of a tree 
which you gash, were it not for mortal mind. ' ' 

^^A child can have worms if you say so, — or any 
other malady, timorously hidden in the beliefs, rel- 
ative to his body, of those about him." 

^'The arguments to be used in curing insanity 
are the same as in other diseases: Namely, the im- 
possibility that matter, brain, can control or de- 
range the mind, can suffer or cause suffering." 

^^When the unthinking lobster loses its claw, it 
grows again. If the Science of life were understood, 
it would be found that the senses of mind are never 
lost, and that matter has no sensation. Then the 
human limb would be replaced as readily as the lob- 
ster's claw." 

These are a few of the scores of like assertions 
scattered everywhere through Science and Health 

Mrs. Eddy evidently taught — repeatedly, explic 
itly and unequivocally, that Christian Science would 
thoroughly and permanently heal any and all dis- 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 117 

eases, inherited or acquired, to which the flesh ever 
was, is, or ever will be heir. 

Christian Science, practitioners and Christian 
Science followers testify to progressive and instan- 
taneous healings that covers the entire gamut of hu- 
man lamentations from the days of Adam down to 
this present hour. 

Here, according to their knowledge and belief, is 
a religion that is all-powerful and infallible — a 
panacea for everything from mange to mites. 

When men and women become converts to Chris- 
tian Science, whatever else they do or do not take 
with them into this cult temple, they certainly do 
not carry with them sense of the ridiculous. 

Humor amongst Christian Science is a commod- 
ity unknown. 

We told the storv elsewhere in this series of a 
woman in a Colorado temple testifying that she was 
chopping kindling and that the ax glanced and cut 
her thumb from the hand, and leisurely she took 
that severed member from the ground, placed it 
back in its proper relation to the hand, silently^ 
treated the unfortunate member, and instantaneous- 
ly the hand was made perfectly whole. 

The devout little woman who told me that she sat 
there and heard this testimony; said so far as she 
could see there wasn't an incredulous smile or the 
batting of an incredulous eye. 

And again of the reputable witness who told in 
my hearing that he heard a woman testify how she 
had been greatly worried over the fact that her hus- 
band 's expansive dome was exposed to the bleak 
northern blast during the chill winter months, and 
how it became a skating rink for the venturesome 
flies during the hot summer months, and how she 
had tried all sorts of hair growers in vain. 



118 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

After being converted to Christian Science, she 
testified, ^^I gave my husband's head a few treat- 
ments and he grew a magnificent head of hair ! ' ' And 
no one laughed. 

In Long Beach, California, a woman told how she 
had found a nest of little kittens, and, '^Horrors! 
THEY WERE BLIND! I treated them with the 
Christian Science treatment," she testified, ''and in 
a few days they all received their sight. ' ' 

These kittens finally got their eyes open, which 
proves very conclusively that in that respect they 
were one ahead of that fool Scientist who was treat- 
ing them for blindness. 

Another Christian Science woman — so the story 
goes, saw a man passing her home, walking with 
difficulty, and her heart ran out in sympathy to him, 
for she had not been long from the church, and the 
milk of human sympathy and kindness had not 
wholly evaporated under the heartless, dwarfing 
agencies of Science, so-called. 

''I am going to treat that man and heal him, and 
that without his knowledge," she said, and so day 
after day as he passed she sat and worked on his 
afflicted limbs. 

Day after day her heart leaped with joy as she 
saw that rapidly the afflicted man was improving, 
and when finally he walked like one most well, she 
thought it time to let him know the source of his 
blessings, and so she stopped him as he passed, and 
said, ''My good man, several weeks ago I saw you 
limping by my house, and my heart ran out in sym- 
pathy to you, and I decided without your knowledge 
or consent that I would make you whole. Day after 
day, as you passed, I treated you, and now I see you 
are again walking almost as easily as well men 
walk, and I want you to know that to Christian 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 119 

Science and its beloved founder, Mrs. Mary Baker 
G. Eddy, you owe your wonderful recovery.'' 

^^ Madam," said the man with some embarrass- 
ment, ^' there must be some mistake here. Several 
months ago in a railroad disaster, I lost my legs, and 
a few weeks ago I got out for the first time on the 
artificial legs which I am naw compelled to use, and 
of course at first I could hardly walk at all, but I 
am learning rapidly, and now I am beginning to 
walk almost as well as before I lost my legs." 

It is probable that before this woman learned 
that' she was treating artificial legs, she entered the 
Science temple and told how she marvelously cured 
a hopeless paralytic, who pulled his helpless limbs 
behind him as he crawled down the street. 

Go into the 'average Wednesday night services in 
the city temple and you will hear some of the richest 
comedy of the world. 

The Christian Science testimony service is a stage 
on which original comedy and original tragedy pass 
without applause, laughter or tears. 



DOES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAL? 

^^In the early history of Christian Science, among 
my thousands of students, few were wealthy. Now 
Christian Scientists are not indigent ; and their com- 
fortable fortunes are acquired by healing mankind, 
morally, physically and spiritually." 

^^ Christian Science affords opportunity to ac- 
quire a profession by which you can accumulate a 
fortune. ' ' 

These are among a few of the alluring, fasci- 
nating announcements that Mrs. Eddy threw out to 
draw students! 

Christian Scientists at first were poor, but now 
have comfortable fortunes, and this through heal- 



120 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

ing mankind of '^ moral, physical and spiritual" in- 
firmities ! 

Christian Science, a ^'profession" in which one 
may soon ^^ accumulate wealth." 

No other religious founder in all the history of 
the race, ever before advertised a special revelation 
from God, through which converts could amass 
fortunes. 

The '^ dollar made the mare go 'round" in the 
Christian Science scheme of things, and Mrs. Eddy 
taught her followers to collect freely of the shekels 
as they passed along, and she set the example by 
shearing to the hide, every fluffy, fleecy sheep that 
chanced into her money itching fingers. 

While Mrs. Eddy expatiated untiringly on the 
nothingness of all things material, she ' ' demonstrat- 
ed" long and lovingly and successfully over that 
tangible, countable, material something called the 
dollar. 

'^Christian Science demonstrates," she says, 
^^that the patient who pays WHAT HE IS ABLE 
"TO PAY, is more apt to get well, than he who with- 
holds a slight equivalent for health." 

Two inducements widely advertised, concerning 
the Christian Science practitioner, drew students 
just like a molasses barrel draws flies in fly time, 
and these were, ^'fortunes to be amassed," and a 
^^ profession to be acquired in three weeks." 

These '^ made-over-night" healers, coming from 
every walk of life, and especially from certain 
classes of the female gender, were sent out into the 
world explicitly commanded by their teacher, to 
HEAL. 

^^ Demonstrate! Demonstrate!!" was the cry of 
Mrs. Eddy — ^^Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse 
the lepers, cast out demons." 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 121 

Christian Science was to live or die judged by the 
one record of its physical cures. 

To do wonders for the body, meant wonderful 
fortunes in a material way, for the hundreds of heal- 
ers Mrs. Eddy was grinding out, and to fail to heal, 
was to announce the death sentence to the selfish, 
sordid, planning and grasping of the whole cult busi- 
ness. 

The necessary thing then, — and this fact was 
drilled home, was to Heal, or at least to profess to 
heal! 

Channels of Publicity were immediately opened, 
and used to their fullest capacity, and the reports of 
healings, of the most miraculous type, began to 
mount astoundingly day by day. 

Men and women, according to these reported 
cases of healing, were pulled from the very jaws of 
death, to be restored to friends, loved ones and to 
perfect health! 

Mind you, these wonderful miracles of healing 
were reported by the Christian Science publicity 
bureau, just as the patent medicine fakir advertises 
his marvelous cures in whatever public medium is 
willing to accept his cunningly constructed false- 
hoods for pay. 

When Christian Science reported men and wo- 
men as healed from the last stages of consumption, 
cancer or heart failure, it was the Christian Scien- 
tists' report, unsubstantiated by any unbiased com- 
mittee of investigation. 

No reputable physicians or surgeons pronounced 
the cure genuine. 

No reputable physicians or surgeons diagnosed 
the case and pronounced it organic trouble in its last 
stages. 

No publicity bureau followed up these quacking 



122 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

quacks to advertise alongside the reported cures, 
their known failures, where men and women and 
children died, and died often of curable infections 
that^ with proper medical attention, would have 
meant the preservation of life! 

Hon. F. W. Peabody, of Boston, testified that he 
investigated, thoroughly, many of the advertised 
cures of Mrs. Eddy, and that to his honest belief, as 
a miracle worker, Mrs, Eddy was a colossal failure. 

Mr. Alfred Farlow, testifying under oath, stated 
that he had never known Mrs. Eddy to cure a case of 
organic trouble, except in one instance, and that was 
a case of stiff leg. 

This highly paid puppet of the Science cult, testi- 
fied that according to his understanding of such 
cases, a stiff leg would be considered an organic 
trouble. 

The credulous, sympathetic, gullible public, be- 
fore swallowing these reported cures of the Science 
cult, should seriously ponder these facts. 

First: Here is a religion that lives or dies — 
leaves its builders in luxury or leaves its builders in 
poverty, just in proportion as it does or does not get 
results in physical healing. 

Second: Here is a religion without a coming 
judgment, and with no coming hell, and a religion in 
which ^'sin and the sinner alike, are nothingness.'^ 
Therefore a religion in which lying brings no serious 
consequences. 

Third : Here is a religion in which to be consist- 
ent, repeatedly and continuously, you are to deny the 
testimony of your senses, and give the lie, point 
blank to a thousand facts of your everyday experi- 
ence. If, when you suffer you are to deny its reality, 
and if, when you sin, you are to deny its reality, then, 
when you recover from any ordinary ailment, you 

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 123 

can magnify this case of healing into any type of 
miracle you may choose. 

He who has the most vivid imagination and can 
imagine the most wonderful cases of heal- 
ing under this so-called Grod-revealed Sci- 
ence, necessarily becomes the most val- 
uable asset the cult has, therefore the usual 
restraints that hold men and women of most relig- 
ions to hard and stern facts, are here removed, and 
the only limitations are the limitations of the imagi- 
nation and the credulity of the public. 

Does Christian Science heal? 



DOES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAL? 

While Mrs. Eddy claimed everything for her sys- 
tem of healing, no one knew better than she its limi- 
tations, and it is a matter of official record, that not 
once, but many times, she turned to other sources 
when suffering pain. 

Three different times Mrs. Eddy issued orders to 
the faithful — specific orders, either of which orders 
offers sufficient evidence that Christian Science was 
limited, and to that extent, that it became woefully 
inadequate when placed up against the more serious 
diseases of the human family. 

Mrs. Eddy taught her followers that to master 
disease the disease must be called by name, ^^If you 
call not the disease by name when you address it 
mentally, the body will no more respond by recovery 
than a rierson will respond whose name is not called. ' ' 
Thus Mrs. Eddy paves the way for the permission 
granted for her practitioners to call an M. D. to 
^^ Diagnose obstinate cases." 

And why call an M. D. to diagnose obstinate 
cases? 

^^For a broken bone," she says, ^'or dislocated 



124 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

joint, His better to call a surgeon, until mankind is 
further advanced in the treatment of mental 
science/' 

And again, on the same basis of apology, Mrs. 
Eddy advises her practitioners not to undertake the 
treatment of contagious diseases, but to turn such 
cases over to regular physicians. 

This calling of a regular physician, advised by 
Mrs. Eddy, to diagnose the case, on the ground that 
the disease must be '^called by name," is the thin- 
nest sort of pretext, under which the practitioner 
can learn if there are broken bones, or if the disease 
be a contagious one, and in either event, '' His best 
to let the regular physician and surgeon handle the 
case. " 

These three concessions, calling a physician for 
diagnosis and calling a physician for broken bones 
and for contagious diseases, invalidate all the high 
sounding claims that Mrs. Eddy made for her re- 
ligion. 

Does Christian Science heal? 

In Christian Science, like every other fake re- 
ligion, where the healing of the body is made the 
paramount issue, to get healing you must claim 
healing. 

Mrs. Eddy says, '^When the first symptoms of 
disease appear, knowing they gain their ground in 
the mind before they can in the body, dismiss the 
first mental admission that you are sick; dispute 
sense with Science. '* 

Just as you stay well by claiming health, so you 
get well, by claiming you have been made well. 

People have come to me with wonderful stories 
of how neighbors who had always been chronic 
complainers, going to Christian Science, were in- 
stantly made whole. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 125 

As a matter of fact, in turning to Christian 
Science, Christian Science demanded that they face 
the world, smile and keep smiling, and whatever 
the testimony of the senses to the contrary, they 
mnst claim healing. 

To admit you are sick is to be sick, and to claim 
you are healed is to be healed. 

I positively know of cases of healing, so-called, 
where men and women are making a tremendously 
hard fight to convince themselves and the world 
that they have been made whole, when I know, and 
they know — and they have admitted as much to me, 
that they had not been made whole. 

This accounts for the hundreds of- instances in 
which men and women have claimed miraculous re- 
covery when suffering from some fatal illness, only 
to fall victim to that very disease, and that within 
a few months after they announced to the world that 
they had been made perfectly whole under Christian 
Science treatment. 

Take the case of the Earl of Dunsmore, who was 
suffering with fatty degeneration of the heart, and 
who was given up to die by leading surgeons of 
London. 

In Christian Science, the Earl of Dunsmore, was 
Smiraculously healed, and this wonderful experience 
of conversion to Christian Science and of healing 
in Christian Science was published in the Cosmo- 
politan Magazine, and Christian Scientists paraded 
this case of healing as the culmination of its long 
string of victories. 

The Cosmopolitan Magazine had scarcely reach- 
ed its readers announcing this miracle of the cen- 
tury, when here came an Associated Press dispatch 
announcing the fact that the Earl of Dunsmore had 
clied and had died with the fatty degeneration of 



126 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

the heart, as surgeons announced he would. 

Was the Earl of Dunsmore healed in Christian 
Science ? 

To get healing he had to claim it, but to claim 
it is no sure evidence that you have it. Christian 
Science teaching to the contrary, notwithstanding. 

Again, Mr. Jackson I. Case, of Eacine, Wis.,. 
arose from a bed of death, instantaneously made 
whole in Christian Science, walked to his office, dic- 
tated a letter to a friend, telling of his restoration 
to perfect health, and then sat there reading the pa- 
per until the letter was finished, and taking the let- 
ter he began his signature, and when about half 
through, slid under the desk, and when they pulled 
him out, he was dead, and he died of the disease 
physicians said he would die with, and died of the 
disease that he claimed he had been miraculously 
healed from in Christian Science. 

Christian Scientists will lie stretched on beds of 
pain, insisting that there is nothing hurting them. 

Why are they in bed, then, and why is the limb 
drawn, or the jaw swollen, or the lips parched with 
fever? 

They lie on beds of pain and lie while lying 
there. 

A woman in California came to church one 
morning convulsed with laughter, and told us how 
her little Christian Science friend had called her 
that morning, and how she found her friend lying 
on the bed, exhausted after a violent fit of vomiting. 
^' It's a lie," she was saying, ^ 'It's a lie, I AM NOT 
SICK! I AM — I — I, Ooooooo, give me the slop jar 
quick, give me the slop jar quick." **** ??!! 

Now, then, was this little sister sick? 

She said not, but was she? 

Again Mrs. Eddy says, '^ Healers must never 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 127 

<3onsent to death." 

But death, like disease, has a strange habit of 
continuing business at the old stand, ^'OPEN ALL 
HOURS, ' ' whether we consent to his doing business 
or not. 

It's like the man in jail, who, when he told his 
attorney the facts in the case, heard his attorney, 
say, ''Man, didn't you know they couldn't put you in 
jail for that?" meekly answered, ''Well, I am in 
here!" "^ / 

So with sickness, and so with death, whether we 
accept or deny the reality, the notices in the 
obituary column of the local paper run with clock- 
like precision. 

A Christian Science practitioner was trying to 
explain the seeming death of a sister Scientist to 
Father Jacob, who, having become interested in 
Christian Science, could not understand how death 
could operated where death was not. 

^'But she did not die. Father Jacob," assured 
the healer, "she only passed!" 

"Veil," said Father Jacob, "I shoost as leaf be 
dead as to be passed!" 

Whether you die or just pass, the undertaker 
makes no distinctions, and the "remains" of the 
Scientist, with the "remains" of the materialist 
must be planted where the weeping willows weep 
and the daisies grow. 

Does Christian Science heal? 



DOES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAL? 

Several facts must be clearly understood before 
accurate conclusions can be drawn concerning the 
efficacy or the permancy of Christian Science 
€ures. 



128 CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 

To begin with, Dr. Oliver Wendell-Holmes esti- 
mated that three-fourths of the world's Mlments 
are imaginary. 

Multitudes are sick only in the mind, and if ever 
cured they must be treated mentally. 

Running as far back as Plato, we have him say- 
ing, ^^The body is not an instrument with which 
physicians cure the body; but they cure the body 
with the mind; but mind, which is sick, can cure 
nothing." 

Laycock says, ^'The most eminest and successful 
physicians have all been psychologists ; for a knowl- 
edge of practical science of mind is fundamentally 
necessary to the practice of medicine/' 

Now, there are two distinct classes of ailments^ 
and under one of these two heads most of the suf- 
fering of the human family can be classed. First, 
there are functional disorders where mind science, 
or Christian Science, so.-called, can and doe^ work 
more or less of benefit. Taken for what it is, the 
science of mind — the power of mind over the body, 
Christian Science is not to be feared, but taken for 
what it claims to be, a special revelation from God, 
with an etherealized Christ, it becomes a heartless, 
cruel and damnable swindle. i 

The second class of ailments, or diseases come 
under the head of organic troubles. 

Before such diseases as come under this head. 
Christian Science stands an impotent failure. 

To be true, under the intoxication of this new 
idea, men and women who were suffering' in the last 
stages of some organic disease may rally, and the 
ravages of the disease may be stayed for weeks or 
months, and the cure claimed may really appear to 
be thorough and genuine, but if the trouble was 
really an organic trouble, (properly diagnosed, and 



CHEISTIAN SCIENCE 129 

pronounced incurable by reputable physicians,) 
time will show that the disease was not cured, but 
only stayed by the excitement and intoxication of 
this new religion! 

^^Mind troubles'' can be cured with *^Mind 
Treatments," and functional disorders can be ma- 
terially improved through the same treatment, and 
organic diseases possibly can be temporarily stay- 
ed by leading men to claim and believe in a perman- 
ent cure. 

*^When healing mentally," says Mrs. Eddy, 
*^call the disease by name." '^You can prevent or 
cure," she says, ^4n just the ratio you expel from 
mind the belief in the transmission of disease." 

And again she says, '^When the first symptoms 
of disease appear, knowing they gain their ground 
in the mind before they do in the body, dismiss the 
first mental admission that you are sick." 

Tnis is mind healing, almost as old as the race,^ 
and this is the one foundation fact — the one re- 
deeming feature, around which all the blasphemy 
and deception of Christian Science, so-called, is 
built. 

But what are we going to do with the fact that 
Christian Scientists claim repeated cases of organic 
healing? 

To make the cult a paying business, Christian 
Science healing must cover all classes and condi- 
tions of human suffering. 

In a religion that teaches that man is incapable 
of sin and no judgment awaits mortals, lying can be- 
come a virtue, and the biggest lies ever invented, so 
long as they magnify and glorify the healing agen- 
cies of the cult, cannot do anything other than re- 
sult in added grist for the Christian Science mill. 

Some cases of wonderful healing are manufac- 
tured out of whole cloth, as I stand ready to prove 



130 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

any day the evidence is wanted. 

This accounts for some cures, announced from 
Christian Science bureaus of publicity. 

The Earl of Dunsmore and Mr. Case, taken from 
amongst hundreds of like incidents, illustrate how 
other thousands of cases of miraculous healing are 
imaginary miracles only. 

But some say, there are certain instances verified 
where reliable witnesses testified that they were 
healed, and months and years of added life have 
followed the announcement by physicians that 
death was near. 

People quite often recover under the care of phy- 
sicians, after those very physicians had given them 
up to die. 

I was. in a city recently, where two such cases 
were brought to my attention, and physicians to this 
day cannot explain these recoveries. 

Imperfection taints everything that human 
knowledge or human skill touches. 

The wisest of surgeons and physicians often 
makes mistakes in diagnosis. 

In a California city three of the leading surgeons 
examined a patient, and each pronounced the ail- 
ment a tumor of the stomach, and so located that an 
operation would be immediately fatal. But the 
mother insisted on an operation, and finally persuad- 
ed the surgeon to act, and he did so, and found the 
ailment a simple ailment that was. easily corrected, 
and the woman was rapidly recovering. 

When Christian Scientists testify to being cured 
of deep seated and fatal organic troubles, even 
though physicians pronounced them that, there still 
remains certain chances that the diagnosis has not 
been the correct one! 

Granted that the diagnosis is correct, and the 
disease is properly located, then the physician turns 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 131 

to his remedies, and he knows that so much of a cer- 
tain drug, combined with so much of another, will 
produce certain effects, provided all these drugs are 
pure! If any of them have been adulterated, then 
the whole combination may be upset, and the rem- 
edy become everything but a remedy. 

A leading physician in Missouri was telling me 
of a man who died young and went to heaven, and 
St. Peter, in great astonishment said, ^^Man, what 
are you doing here? You are not expected here for 
thirty-five years yet! Who was your doctor?" 

When the diagnosis is correct, and the medicines 
are pure, and the prescription is carefully com- 
pounded, and the instructions are undeviatingly fol- 
lowed, the best that any physician can claim for his 
remedies, is that they assisted nature in her work 
of healing. Medicines do not heal, but nature must 
do her own work in re-building, and medicine can 
only help — if rightly administered, and retard if 
wrongly administered. 

A friend went into Christian Science through 
the fact that her daughter, a Christian Scientist, re- 
covered from typhoid fever without taking medi- 
cine. 

This friend almost collapsed when I informed 
her that the leading physicians today do not give 
medicine in typhoid fever cases, but urge that prop- 
er nursing is the necessary thing. 

Whether in Christian Science or out — whether 
taking medicine or not, most people would eventual- 
ly recover from most of the ordinary ailments, as 
well as from most of the more serious ones, and of 
course, if a Christian Scientist, whatever nature 
does, Christian Science does, and of course, apart 
from Christian Science, they would have died. 

Does Christian Science heal? 

Christian Science heals only as other like move- 



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ments have healed. 

Christian Science does not nnstop the deaf ear^ 
or open the blind eye, or cleanse the leper or heal 
the lame or raise the dead, and yet, if Christian 
Science were true in the least of its claims, these 
type of cures would be common. 

The Christian Science cures are to be classed 
with the daily cures wrought at Lourdes, or at the 
sanctuary of Saint Anne de Beaupre, or a thousand 
and one other shrines or so-called ^^Holy Places," 
over the earth. 

Dr. Vance relates the story of a Chinaman whose 
house burned and his pig with it. 

Eaking over the wreckage, his fingers- touched 
the roasted carcass of the pig, and sticking his fing- 
ers into his mouth, he got a taste of the delicious 
roasted meat. 

He feasted for days on that pig, while his house 
was being rebuilt. Then there was another fire, and 
when the house was rebuilt, still another and then 
another, and each time a pig was roasted. 

Other Chinamen got wise???? and other houses 
began to burn, and everywhere people were eating 
roast pig. 

Now, roast pig may be alright, but there is a 
cheaper way to get roast pig, than by burning the 
house. 

Christian Science heals in so far as mental 
therapeutics have power to heal, but there is a bet- 
ter way to get mind healing than by backing into 
Christian Science. 

We don't have to bum the House of God, the Bi- 
ble, and all the sacred memories that cluster there, 
repudiating the shed blood of Jesus, in order that 
we may get the little dab of mind healing which the 
cult gives! 

What fools, or tools, we mortals be. 



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